§ Dr. CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will show for each local authority the rate support grant paid in each year since 1979, expressed in(a) cash terms and (b) real terms at 1987–88 prices; and what percentage of the council's total expenditure in each year this represented.
§ Mr. Ridley[holding answer 15 March 1988]: I have today placed this information in the House of Commons Library.