§ Mr. Loveridgeasked the Secretary or State for the Environment when he expects his consultations with local authorities to be far enough advanced for him to be able to make a statement on the best ways of achieving the restraint on local authorities' expenditure, needed to limit this to accord with the growth rates indicated in Command Paper No. 5879.
§ Mr. CroslandI hope shortly to issue a circular spelling out the consequences 141W of those figures in the Public Expenditure White Paper (Cmnd. 5879) which relate to local authority expenditure.
§ Mr. Cryerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will introduce legislation to impose strict controls on the amounts that may be expended by local authorities on ceremonial and entertaining.
§ Mr. John SilkinI have no such proposals. But local authorities have been strongly advised to impose such strict controls themselves.