§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Employment if his Department has been involved in discussions with the local authority associations on the use of unemployment figures as a factor in calculation of the rate support grant; and, if so, how he proposes to reconcile travel-to-work areas with local authority boundaries.
§ Mr. GoldingMy Department has provided the Department of the Environment with the numbers unemployed by employment office areas, but it has not been involved in the discussions with the local authority associations on their use in assessing the needs element of the rate support grant.