Rate Support Grant

HC Deb 08 December 1976 vol 922 c217W

24. Mr. Madden

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received following the announced reduction in the rate support grant.

Mr. Shore

I am aware of the views of the local authority associations. My Department has also received a number of queries from individual local authorities.

42. Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether, in setting the new rate support grant formula for 1977–78, designed to help the older urban areas, he took account of the effect on areas such as Reddish and Edgeley in Stockport, which have many of the typical problems of the older urban areas.

Mr. Freeson

Each authority's needs element entitlement will be based on the incidence in its area of the needs factors listed in the Rate Support Grant Order. These include a number of factors reflecting the problems of the older urban areas.