§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will list the local authorities which lodged complaints with his Department about SSA allocations for 2002–03. [41675]
§ Dr. WhiteheadThe Department consulted local authorities on its proposals for the funding of local government revenue expenditure in 2002–03 on 4 December 2001. As part of that consultation the Government, as usual, received a large number of responses from councils with their view on the proposals and also correcting where necessary the data used in standard spending assessments as we had requested.