HC Deb 29 April 1981 vol 3 c416W
35. Mr. John H. Osborn

asked the Secretary of State for Transport whether he will introduce legislation to require local councils to operate a policy of covering expenditure on transport from fare revenue without rate subsidies.

Mr. Fowler

In deciding local transport's spending priorities local authorities need to have full regard, both to their ratepayers' ability to pay, and also to what the country can afford by way of public expenditure nationally. I shall have this very much in mind in my transport supplementary grant settlement later this year.

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