§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for Transport what reply he has sent to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities in response to its protest against his refusal to pay the £5 million due to South Yorkshire County Council in respect of transport support grant.
§ Mr. William RodgersI met representatives of the association on 17th February 1977, when there was a full discussion of the events that led to the allocation of South Yorkshire County Council's transport supplementary grant132W for 1977–78. Amongst other things, I reminded the association that South Yorkshire's expenditure proposals had exceeded in total its fair share of available resources. I said that in all respects the county council had been treated in the same way as the other authorities.