§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many officials in his 213W Department—full time equivalents—were required to operate the rate support grant and additional measures, such as the "holdback" mechanism, in preparing the grant settlements for 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82 and 1982–83.
§ Mr. KingOne directorate within the Department deals with local government expenditure and rate support grant. Its staff numbers have been as follows:
at Number 1 April 1970 86.5 1 April 1980 86.5 1 April 1981 91 1 February 1982 86 An equivalent figure for 1 April 1978 is not available.