§ Mr. George Cunninghamasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, assuming total equality in all other respects, how much more rate support grant is payable to one local authority as against another if the first, at the relevant time, had 100 more children in its care than the second.
§ Sir George YoungThe numbers of children in care have been used only indirectly in calculating the personal social services component of grant-related expenditure assessments which underlie the distribution of rate support grant. Detailed information about those assessments is available in two publications "Grant Related Expenditure: How Expenditure Needs of Local Authorities are Assessed in the New Block Grant" and "Granted Related Expenditure: Components of Grant Related Expenditure for English Authorities 1981–82" placed in the Library of the House by my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for the Environment. Paragraph 1.3.5 of the appendix to the former is particularly relevant.