§ 70. Mr. Ridsdaleasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how much he estimates would have been needed as a rate support grant in the financial year 1967–68 to have prevented rate increases.
§ Mr. MacCollIt is impossible to say. In recent years changes in rate poundages have varied from increases of 30 per cent. and more in some areas to small decreases. It is too early to say what the pattern for next year will be.