§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will list, for every local authority in England, its target expenditure for 1980–81, in November 1980 prices, to which each was asked to reduce its expenditure when Her Majesty's Government called for revised budgets in the summer of 1980;
(2) if he will list, for every local authority in England, its current expenditure in November 1980 prices, as reported to his Department at the time of setting original budgets for 1980–81.
§ Mr. KingI have today placed in the Library of the House information on local authorities' original budgets for 1980–81. For information on the targets which were set for 1980–81 I refer the hon. Member to my answer to the hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) on 20 March.—[Vol. 1, c. 203.]
§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will reprice the volume expenditure targets for local authorities in 1981–82 to 1981–82 outturn prices and make such additions to, and subtractions from, each authority's grant-related expenditure figure for 1981–82, so as to make possible comparisons between the two sets of figures.