§ Q28. Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Prime Minister if Her Majesty's Government will increase the level of the housing allocation to Stockport metropolitan borough.
§ The Prime MinisterAll housing authorities in England were informed on 29 October that they could apply for additional housing capital allocations for 1982–83 and that they could increase their spending on home improvement grants this year without limit. For 1983–84, Stockport's housing investment programme allocation is £5.103 million. It may add to that allocation roughly half of any housing capital receipts it generates next year and the same proportion of any receipts it has not so far spent from previous years. Authorities have also been told that they will receive retrospective allocations next year as necessary if their expenditure on home improvement grants exceeds the indicative figures notified to them on 25 November 1982—for Stockport, £3.3 million.