Rate Support Grants (Bristol)

HC Deb 25 February 1969 vol 778 cc258-9W

64. Mr. Ellis

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what was the rate support grant or its equivalent paid to Bristol for each year since 1962; and what is the estimated grant for 1969–70.

Mr. Skeffington

The estimated rate support grants payable to Bristol County Borough Council for 1969–70, including the domestic element, amount to £10,474,431. The corresponding grants for 1962–63 amounted to £5,078,721. With permission, I will circulate particulars of those amounts and of the amounts for the intervening years in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

Following is the information:

recipients of this patronage are of Scottish domicile.

Mr. Greenwood

I am entitled to make under statute 190 salaried appointments and over 700 fee-paid and unpaid appointments. There are only a few bodies to which I make appointments which have responsibilities in Scotland as well as England. In such cases my action is taken jointly with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State.

Four of the holders of Salaried appointments have Scottish addresses; information about the domicile of fee-paid and unpaid persons is not readily available.