HC Deb 25 February 1969 vol 778 c268W
66. Mr. Gordon Campbell

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether any local authority in Scotland has forfeited any rate support grant because it has acceded to a request by the Government to reduce a proposed rent increase in order to conform with the Government's prices and incomes policy.

Mr. Ross

No.

67. Mr. Gordon Campbell

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give an assurance that no local authority in Scotland will forfeit any rate support grant under the Rate Support Grant Order (Scotland), 1969, Schedule 4, because of the Government's prices and incomes policy.

Mr. Ross

Any authority whose rents are now at or approaching the prescribed percentage of gross annual value for the current year should be able to achieve the new percentages prescribed in Schedule 4 to the Rate Support Grant Order, 1969, notwithstanding the restriction of rent increases under prices and incomes policy.

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