§ Mr. Durantasked the Secretary of State for the Environment when the rate support grant report for 1982–83 will be published.
§ Mr. HeseltineI have today laid the rate support grant report before Parliament. It embodies the formal determinations to give effect to the proposals I announced on December 21. Some of the figures have been revised since that date to take account of minor data corrections, and the revenue consequences of capital allocations for 1982–83. A technical change has also been made to the way in which the safety net interacts with the London resource discount, with a small consequent increase in the total of block grant. A table giving revised figures for the individual expenditure targets and the authorities grant entitlements if they spend at target is being placed in the Libraries of both Houses.