§ Mr. Kaufmanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment when, following parliamentary approval on 20 January of the rate support grant supplementary report (England) 1982–83, imposing grant holdback on certain local authorities, he intends to table a supplementary report abating or abolishing holdback for penalised authorities subsequently discovered not to have overspent.
§ Mr. Patrick Jenkin[pursuant to his reply, 13 July 1983, c. 460]: I will consider when to lay a second supplementary rate support grant report for 1982–83, in the light of consultations with the local authority associations, on the basis of information about local authorities' outturn expenditure for that year.
§ Mr. Kaufmanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will state, for each of the five most recent financial years for which the requested information is available, what were the aggregate budgets of English local authorities as submitted to him; and what was the aggregate outturn expenditure of these authorities audited where available, and estimated where not.
§ Mr. Patrick Jenkin[pursuant to his reply, 13 July 1983, c. 460]: Following is the available information of relevant* expenditure. The figures for 1977–78 to 1980–81 are for England and Wales.
Budgets £ million cash Outturn 1977–78 12,747 12,128 1978–79 14,002 13,543 1979–80 15,796 15,866 †l980–81 19,166 19,192 †l981–82(England) 20,071 19,896 * Relevant expenditure is defined as net current expenditure plus revenue contributions to capital outlay, loan charges net of interest receipts, and rate fund contributions to Housing Revenue Account. † The table shows original budgets. Revised budgets were called for in these years. They show relevant expenditure of £19,150 million in 1980–81 and £20,078 million in 1981–82.