§ Mr. Spriggsasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will take steps to provide additional financial resources to the St. Helens metropolitan borough council for home improvements.
§ Sir George YoungThe Government have already taken steps to make available additional capital resources to cover spending on home improvement grants. Each local authority has been notified of an indicative figure for expenditure on improvement grants in 1983–84. Additional allocations will be available to any authority whose expenditure on home improvement grants exceeds its indicative figure and whose total housing capital expenditure exceeds its HIP allocation.