§ Mr. Penhaligonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the sums made available to the district councils and the county council in Cornwall for each of the last 10 years at 1980 prices.
§ Mr. KingThe available figures are as follows:
Rate Support Grant * paid to County plus Districts in Cornwall Outturn prices November 1980 prices † £ million £ million 1969–70 ‡14,534 60 1970–71 ‡ 16,735 64 1971–72 ‡ 19,496 68 1972–73 ‡22,929 74 1973–74 ‡ 27,723 80 1974–75 33,189 82 1975–76 45,457 90 1976–77 48,619 85 1977–78 51,494 82 1978–79 55,358 80 1979–80 65,085 81 Notes: * Needs, resources and domestic element. † Because of the reorganisation of local government, fully comparable factors are not available for repricing the figures for years prior to 1974–75. For these earlier years estimates have been made using a deflator for local authority final expenditure (current expenditure on goods and services). All the repricing factors used are national ones, and may therefore not be precisely applicable to Cornwall. ‡ These figures are not necessarily comparable to those for later years because of the effect of the reorganisation of local government. Consistent data on other grants paid to Cornwall is not available because of incomplete returns from the authorities concerned.