§ Dr. Cunninghamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the number of non-metropolitan county councils which would suffer a block grant reduction, in cash, if they moved from their 1983–84 spending level to their 1984–85 target, showing (a) the cash loss in grant and (b) the grant loss as a rate poundage.
§ Mr. Patrick Jenkin[pursuant to his reply, 31 January 1984, c. 145]: There are four non-metropolitan county councils which would receive less grant for spending at their 1984–85 target, than they would receive in 1984–85, after holdback, for spending at the level of their 1983–84 budget, adjusted for the lower rate of national income surcharge. They are listed together with the reductions in grant in cash and rate poundage terms.
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Grant Reductions Cash £ million
As a rate poundage Berkshire 0.044 0.04p Buckinghamshire 0.134 0.13p Hertfordshire 0.315 0.18p Surrey 0.701 0.40p