HC Deb 08 December 1976 vol 922 c219W
32. Mr. Michael Morris

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what he estimates will be the effect on rates in 1977–78 of the rate support grant settlement announced on 22nd November.

Mr. Shore

If local authorities keep to the agreed levels of expenditure and make sufficient use of their balances, then the national average increase in domestic rates should not be greater than 15 per cent.