Rate Support Grant

HC Deb 20 June 1988 vol 135 cc438-9W

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish amounts of rate support grant and other Government grants paid to all Welsh district and county councils each year since 1974, using 1974 as the base year expressed as 100.

Mr. Peter Walker

An index of the amounts of rate support grant and other Government grants paid to all Welsh district and county councils each year since 1974–75 as reported by local authorities is given in the table:

	1974–75 = 100
1974–75	100.0
1975–76	133.1
1976–77	151.3
1977–78	161.4
1978–79	174.2
1979–80	195.5
1980–81	235.4

	1974–75 =100
1981–82	246.6
1982–83	257.3
1983–84	268.5
1984–85	276.5
1985–86	291.3
11986–87	312.4
1 Provisional.