§ Mr. Brocklebank-Fowlerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has anything to add to his reply of 21 December 1982, Official Report, c. 377–78, to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North West to the questions on local authority expenditure; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. KingThese data will be available shortly; and will be published by CIPFA in "Finance and General Statistics 1983–84" in the summer.
§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the original planned level of (a) rate support grant current and (b) public expenditure survey current expenditure as implied by Cmnd. 7841, table 1.5, and paragraph 46 of part I (i) in November 1979 survey prices and (ii) at estimated outturn prices for 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83 and 1983–84 for local authorities in England.
§ Mr. Giles ShawAll available figures for planned local authorities' public expenditure were published in Cmnd. 7841. A comparison between RSG current and YES current expenditure was given in table 4.5 for the period 1974–75 to 1980–81, but was not available for later years. In March 1980 cash planning had not been introduced, and plans in cash were not available.
§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the inflation factors which express the movement in pay and prices, overall, between November 1978 and November 1979 prices, November 1979 and November 1980 prices, November 1980 and November 1981 prices, November 1981 and November 1982 estimated prices and the implied November 1982 to November 1983 prices factor for rate support grant current expenditure for local authorities in England and Wales.
§ Mr. Giles ShawFollowing are the changes in local authorities' pay and prices within net current expenditure (RSG basis):
Price bases per cent. November 1978 to November 1979 +14.9 November 1979 to November 1980 +24.5 November 1980 to November 1981 +10.1 November 1981 to November 1982 +6.7 November 1982 to November 1983 n/a
§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the estimated outturn of local government capital expenditure in England in 1982–83; and what was the quarter by quarter total of capital expenditure from the start of the 1979–80 financial year to the end of 1982–83.
§ Mr. Giles ShawFollowing is the readily available information:
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Gross capital expenditure £ million Gross capital receipts £ million Net capital expenditure £ million 1981–82 First quarter 777 269 508 Second quarter 932 352 580 Third quarter 925 345 580 Fourth quarter 1,283 445 838
Gross capital expenditure £ million Gross capital receipts £ million Net capital expenditure £ million 1982–83 First quarter 722 412 310 Second quarter 899 468 431 Third quarter 1,093 521 572 The information is based on the capital payments returns. It excludes law and order services but includes housing association grants. Returns for the January to March 1983 quarter are not yet available.
§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish his Department's best estimate of the total of local authority total expenditure in 1983–84, the total of estimated holdback consistent with 1983–84 original budgets and the estimated level of clawback.
§ Mr. Giles ShawBudgeted total expenditure for 1983–84 by local authorities in England is £20,905 million; the estimated total of grant holdback consistent with these budgets, but before taking account of exempted urban programme expenditure, is £289 million. There will be no clawback of grant this year; the total of grant claims—before holdback—is £57 million less than the total block grant available for distribution. Accordingly, a positive close ending adjustment to grant claims is being made. Initially, all grant claims will be increased by a factor of 1.006556. However, at the first supplementary report, the opportunity will be taken to reset the national poundage schedule.
§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish his best estimate of the outturn of local authority relevant expenditure in 1982–83 and of the total Exchequer grants, rate support grant, specific and supplementary grants, for that year.
§ Mr. Giles ShawFollowing is the latest available information for local authorities in England for 1982–83:
£ million Relevant expenditure 21,718* Aggregate Exchequer grants: Rate support grants 8,982† Specific and supplementary grants 2,209* * Provisional estimate based on local authorities' revised estimates for 1982–83. † Domestic rate relief grant and block grant after holdback from the "Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report, (England) 1982–83".