§ Dr. Cunninghamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish, for 1983–84, the number of local authorities which were spending (a) above grant-related expenditure and above target, (b) below or at grant-related expenditure and below or at target, (c) above grant-related expenditure and below or at target and (d) below or at grant-related expenditure and above target.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinThe information relating to budgets of all local authorities in 1983–84, in England, is as follows:
- (a) 119 are above grant-related expenditure and above target.
- (b) 184 are below or at GRE and below or at target.
- (c) 57 are above GRE and below or at target.
- (d) 53 are below or at GRE and above target.
§ Dr. Cunninghamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the percentage change in current expenditure per head of population on each service of every (a) non-metropolitan county, (b) metropolitan county, (c) metropolitan district, (d) London borough and (e) each precepting authority in London between 1980–81 and 1983–84.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinThe information cannot be provided except at disproportionate cost.