§ 41. Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether, in the light of discussions with local authority organisations, he has now revised his estimate of overspending in the financial year 1981–82.
§ Mr. KingI discussed with the local authority associations in the consultative council on local government finance on 2 June an analysis of the 1981–82 returns which implies a budgeted excess of local authorities' planned current expenditure some £800 million at November 1980 prices, or 5.3 per cent. above the Government's plans for 1981–82. Any revision of this estimate must now wait until the results are available of the revised budgets due to be returned by the end of July.