Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he proposes to issue to the local authority associations consultation papers on housing subsidy for 1984–85.
Mr. GowMy right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales and the Environment have issued consultation papers today. The first concerns the Government's proposals for calculating the increase which local authorities will be expected to find from local sources in arriving at their entitlement to housing subsidy for 1984–85. The second concerns the amount of management and maintenance expenditure to be treated as reckonable for housing subsidy purposes in 1984–85. Copies of the papers have been placed in the Vote Office and in the Libraries of both Houses.