§ Mr. Mappasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if the 3 per cent. increase in real terms above the 164W Rate Support Grant for 1968–69 for local authority educational expenditure 1969–70 excludes the increases in salaries, wages, rating, heating and lighting; and what estimate he has made of the change in real values in respect of the residual costs.
§ Mr. SkeffingtonThe increase in real terms, which applies to the relevant expenditure as a whole and does not relate to any one service, is calculated after allowing for increases in the level of prices, costs and remuneration. The increase in real terms is thus not reduced by the residual costs referred to in the Question; and no separate estimate has been made of them.