§ Mr. Dewarasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report a table covering the years 1978–79 to 1984–85 which expands the reconciliation in Cmnd. 9143 (vol. II, table 2.18.1) of local authority expenditure in England on a public expenditure survey basis with total relevant expenditure for rate support grant purposes, detailing (i) the adjustments to current expenditure on public expenditure survey basis to reach relevant current expenditure on a rate support grant basis and (ii) the adjustments from relevant current expenditure to reach total relevant expenditure.
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§ Mr. WaldegraveLocal authority current expenditure on a public expenditure survey basis differs from relevant current expenditure for rate support grant purposes in the following respects. It includes rate fund contributions to the housing revenue account, mandatory student awards
£ million cash 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 Current expenditure (public expenditure survey basis) 11,826 14,054 17,032 19,137 21,102 23,905 23,428 Relevant current expenditure (for rate support grant purposes) 11,037 13,000 15,682 17,472 19,054 20,451 20,389 Rate fund contributions to housing revenue account 291 433 561 428 434 490 246 Revenue contributions to capital expenditure 536 547 585 687 937 579 513 Loan charges 1,155 1,415 1,648 1,782 1,830 1,907 2,030 Interest receipts -290 -448 -424 -436 -485 -421 -295 Total relevant expenditure 12,729 14,947 18,052 19,933 21,770 23,006 22,883 Notes:
(1) Outturn data except 1983–84 (revised estimates except for current expenditure which is based on budgets) and 1984–85 (provision)
(2) For 1983–84, current expenditure (public expenditure survey basis) is based on budgets; relevant current expenditure and other items are based on revised estimates and unlike table 2.18.2 in Vol. II, Cmnd. 9143, do not take account of the classification change for housing benefit which took place in 1984–85.
(3) Definitions of relevant current expenditure and subsequent items are consistent with the RSG settlement definition for each year. Thus interest receipts on services are included with interest receipts from 1982–83 onwards rather than deducted from relevant current expenditure, and some elements of housing benefit relating to part of rent rebates expenditure are included within relevant current expenditure in 1984–85 rather than within, rate fund contributions to housing revenue account.
§ Dr. Cunninghamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the planned total of (a) current, (b) total and (c) relevant expenditure (including both allocated and unallocated current expenditure), local authorities' original budgets, revised budgets (where
£ million—England 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 Provision Budget Revised budget Revised estimate Outturn Provision Budget Revised estimate Outturn Provision Budget Revised estimate Provision Budget Current expenditure 16,180 17,534 17,516 17,527 17,472 18,000 19,260 19,231 19,054 19,692 20,550 20,451 20,389 21,439 Relevant expenditure 18,423 20,071 20,078 20,047 19,933 20,463 21,942 21,717 21,770 22,307 23,070 23,006 22,883 23,775 'Total' expenditure 16,982 18,590 18,589 18,634 18,565 18,515 19,947 19,699 19,731 20,134 20,905 20,788 20,542 21,383 Notes:
(1) Definitions consistent with the settlement definitions in each year.
(2) Including both allocated and unallocated current expenditure, where appropriate.