§ Mr. Maurice Macmillanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the estimated total cost to all local authorities in a full year of paying the increase in the employer's contribution to national insurance; and if he will list the additional amounts payable for each local authority.
§ Mr. FreesonThe estimate received from the local authority associations of the cost to local authorities in England and Wales of the 1½ per cent. national insurance surcharge payable from October 1978 is about £108 million in a full year. We do not have estimates for individual authorities.