§ 45. Mr. Alisonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science why the assumed percentage increase in local authority expenditure on education in 1970–71 is lower than the overall percentage increase in rate support grant for that year.
§ Mr. Edward ShortThe current rate support grant settlement envisages that expenditure on education by local authorities will rise at a steady rate of nearly 4 per cent. per annum during 1969–70 and 1970–71, or by about 8 per cent. in all. A similar total growth-rate is allowed for in other local authority expenditure over these two years, but for demographic and other reasons the increase in this expenditure is expected to be smaller in the first year than in the second.