§ Mr. Kaufmanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will state, for each of the five most recent financial years for which the requested information is available, what were the aggregate budgets of English local authorities as submitted to him; and what was the aggregate outturn expenditure of these authorities audited where available, and estimated where not;
(2) when, following parliamentary approval on 20 January of the Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report (England) 1982–83, imposing grant holdback on certain 463W local authorities, he intends to table a supplementary report abating or abolishing holdback for penalised authorities subsequently discovered not to have overspent;
(3) if he will list the local authorities which, having suffered grant holdback as a result of the Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report (England) (No. 2) 1982, are now to have some or all of that holdback restored if Parliament approves the Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report (England) (No. 3) 1981–82; and if, for each of these local authorities, he will state (a) the expenditure target, (b) the budget on the basis of which holdback was imposed, (c) the expenditure total or other latest information on the basis of which he has decided to restore some or all of the holdback, (d) the original amount of holdback imposed and (e) the amount now to be restored.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinI shall answer these question shortly.