HC Deb 10 November 1982 vol 31 cc192-3W
42. Mr. Joseph Dean

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if, when settling the level of housing investment programme for the coming year, he will discount the unused allocation for the current year.

Mr. Stanley

I hope that there will not be any unused HIP allocations this year, and indeed that authorities will in addition make significant use of the very substantial capital receipts available to them to increase expenditure beyond their basic allocations. Where, however, an authority seems likely to fail to spend even its basic allocation this year, it would clearly be unfair to other authorities who need extra resources to take no account of this in determining next year's allocation.

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