§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment which metropolitan county and metropolitan district, county council and district or borough council have the highest and which the lowest administrative cost per head for the most recent convenient year since reorganisation of local government in England and Wales.
§ Mr. OakesDetails of the administrative costs of individual local authorities are not available on a consistent basis, and so comparative figures as between types of authority cannot be provided.
793WOn administrative costs generally, I would refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Planning and Local Government to the hon. Member for Reading, North (Mr. Durant) on 2nd February.—[Vol. 904, 412–13.]