§ Mrs. Anne CampbellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what assessment his Department makes of previous spending patterns by individual local authorities in its calculations of total standard spending for that authority. [89023]
§ Mr. MealeThe formula for Standard Spending Assessments is built up from formulae relating to blocks of services. Those formulae are, in many cases, based on statistical analysis of the variations between authorities in spending on those services.