§ 48. Mr. Buchanan-Smithasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the effect on rates of the Government's restriction to 3⅓ per cent. of the increase in reckonable expenditure of local authorities in 1969–70, in view of the financial commitments of local authorities which cannot be easily varied.
§ Dr. Dickson MabonI do not accept that there need be a general increase in 1969–70 by comparison with 1968–69.