§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Seretary of State for Wales whether the cost of community care schemes, financed jointly by local authorities and health authorities in Wales, will be disregarded for the purposes of monitoring local authorities' expenditure against target and for holdback purposes.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsI have made provision in the Wales rate support grant report 1984–85, laid before the House on 26 January, for cash increases in expenditure between 1983–84 and 1984–85 on projects towards which health authorities are making payments under section 28A of the National Health Service Act 1977—as amended by section 1 of the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudication Act 1983—to be disregarded for the purpose of determining a local authority's liability for rate support grant holdback in 1984–85.