§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT the amount of rate support grant, or equivalent subvention by the central Government, made to Sheffield County Borough in each financial year from 1958–59 to 1968–69, and the estimated sum which will be provided in 1969–70.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonThe latest estimates of the rate support grants for the county borough of Sheffield for 1967–68, 1968–69 and 1969–70, and the amounts of the corresponding grants for the years 1959–60 to 1966–67 are as follows:
£ 1959–60 … … … 5,495,400 1960–61 … … … 5,693,436 1961–62 … … … 5,999,421 1962–63 … … … 6,385,899 1963–64 … … … 6,667,498 1964–65 … … … 6,878,316 1965–66 … … … 7,841,439 1966–67 … … … 8,710,303 1967–68 … … … 11,053,232 1968–69 … … … 12,001,429 1969–70 … … … 13,501,117 Comparable figures are not available for the year 1958–59, which preceded the 184W introduction of the general grant. The county borough was extended with effect from 1st April, 1967, and its population was increased by 9.8 per cent.; the amounts of grants for 1967–68 and the following years are therefore not comparable with those for years prior to 1967–68.