HC Deb 28 February 1978 vol 945 c130W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will give as much detailed information as is available in the Official Report showing how Treasury grants for whatever purposes have assisted the local authority and people in the parliamentary constituency of Ilford, North, for each of the years since October 1974.

Mr. Guy Barnett

Information is not available in precisely the form requested since records of Exchequer grants are not kept by Parliamentary constituency. However, for 1974 to 1977, the total amounts of the general rate support grant and Exchequer grants and subsidies for specific services to the London Borough of Redbridge, which includes the parliamentary constituency of Ilford, North, were of the order of:

£ million
1974–75 18.1
1975–76 25.1
1976–77 28.8

These figures do not include grants payable towards expenditure on particular services of the precepting authorities—the Greater London Council and the Metropolitan Police Authority.