§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish, for each local authority in England its total expenditure as defined in section 56(8) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 as implied by the calculated grant base position used in appendix I to annex G of the Rate Support Grant Report (England) 1980.
§ Mr. KingI am placing the figures for which the hon. Member asks in the Library. I should emphasise that these figures were projections made last autumn to be used in the calculation of rate support grant entitlements. They are not expenditure targets for individual authorities.
§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish, for all local authorities in England, in total, for 1981–82, (a) total expenditure as defined in section 56(8) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, (b) current expenditure which authorities are requested to reduce their expenditure to and (c) relevant expenditure as defined in section 54(5) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980; and if he will list the differences between each definition of expenditure, showing the money amount of each difference.
§ Mr. KingThe figures and their derivations, which are contained in annexes A and B of the rate support grant report (England) 1980, are as follows:
£ million (November 1980 prices) (b) Current expenditure (volume) 15,159
£ million (estimated 1981–82 outturn prices) (bCurrent expenditure 16,180 Revenue contributions to capital outlay +582 Loan charges +1,674 Rate fund contribution to Housing Revenue Account +254 Interest receipts (addes back) -267 (c) Total revenue expenditure 18,423 Net non-relevant expenditure* +160 Interest receipts +267 Specific and supplementary grants -1,868 (a) "Total" expenditure for block grant purposes 16,982 * Assumed figure, not included in the Report.
§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the current expenditure for every local authority in England for 1981–82 budget estimate, in November 1980 prices, for which his Department had received figures on 1 May 1981, and list separately those authorities from which no return has been received.
§ Mr. KingBy 1 May, my Department had received 411 out of 414 returns from English local authorities. Some of these contained errors which required investigation. As is customary, it is proposed to discuss the results with the local authority associations on 2 June. Thereafter. I will make the results available.