HC Deb 08 August 1980 vol 990 c356W
Mr. Hudson Davies

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the June figures for local authority manpower in Wales, broken down service by service, for 1978, 1979 and 1980.

Mr. Wyn Roberts

Figures for June 1980 are not yet available. Provisional figures for March 1980 have been substituted in the following table:

Mr. Michael Roberts

Cash limits are not set for individual local authorities. There is no question of the cash limit for the 1980 –81 rate support grant settlement being increased to meet these awards. In so far as the awards, taken together with the 18.2 per cent. award agreed earlier this year by the Burnham committees, exceed the provision made by individual local education authorities they will, in the Government's view, have to be met by corresponding reductions in expenditure.