§ Mr. Heddleasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he can now announce the final adjustments to local authorities' housing investment programme allocations for 1981–82.
§ Mr. StanleyAs I told my hon. Friend the Member for Reading, North (Mr. Durant) on 19 March—[Vol. 1, c. 171–172]—adjustments were issued on that day to local authorities' provisional allocations for 1981–82, in order to reflect estimated overspending or underspending by individual authorities in 1980–81 and to offset a net total of £56.1 million in excess of the cash limit which was available to authorities in 1980–81 under the year-to-year tolerance limits.
Those adjustments were based on the latest estimates then available of authorities' likely expenditure in 1980–81. The outturn figures for most authorities' actual expenditure in 1980–81 have now been received and their HIP allocations for 1981–82 are today being adjusted against these figures. A copy of the revised allocation table has been placed in the Library. Adjustments will be made for the remaining authorities when their expenditure returns for 1980–81 have been received.
Where any subsequent adjustments are warranted by further revisions to the outturn figures for 1980–81, authorities will be advised individually.