§ Mr. Whiteheadasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the total expenditure, as defined in section 56(8) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, of every local authority in England in 1980–81 implied by the current expenditure of each authority in 1980–81 at revised budgets stage.
§ Mr. KingNo. The section 56(8) definition of total expenditure was not introduced until the 1981–82 RSG settlement as part of the new block grant system. Local authorities report their decisions on total expenditure when making their grant claims for 1981–82. It is not possible to deduce what total expenditures on this definition would have been in 1980–81 from the revised budget returns last July, which were specifically concerned with reductions in net current expenditure.