§ Mr. Dudley Smithasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish in the Official Report the amount of transport supplementary grant paid to local authorities in England and Wales in 1975–76 and 1976–77, and proposed for 1977–78, together with the amounts 400W of accepted expenditure on local transport in those years, all at November 1976 prices.
§ Mr. HoramInformation in the form requested is not readily available. The exact revaluation to November 1976 price levels of Accepted Expenditure and Transport Supplementary Grant (TSG) allocated to county councils and the GLC at November 1974 and 1975 prices—that is, in the 1975–76 and 1976–77 settlements, respectively—would require the preparation of specific inflation indices and their subsequent application to the individual heads of expenditure which together comprise the local transpport sector.
My right hon. Friend will make a statement about the 1977–78 TSG settlement shortly.