HC Deb 12 November 1979 vol 973 c448W
Mr. Richard Wainwright

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the amount of Government grant paid to the North-West water authority and the West Yorkshire water authority in the years 1977, 1978 and 1979.

Mr. Fox

Government grant has been paid by my Department to the North-West water authority and the Yorkshire water authority under the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Acts 1944 to 1971 and under the Local Employment Act 1972, as follows:

November to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Short).—[Vol. 973, c. 285–86.]