§ Dr. Cunninghamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will update the expenditure performance and growth tables, 1978–79 to 1983–84, placed in the Library in December 1983, on the basis of local authority's budget returns for 1984–85 showing for each local authority in England (a) the percentage by which its expenditure is above or below its grant-related expenditure assessment in 1984–85, (b) the rank order of spending relative to grant-related expenditure in 1984–85 within each authority's class, (c) its percentage above or below its expenditure target in 1984–85, (d) the rank order of spending relative to target in 1984–85 within each authority's class, (e) the cash growth, as a percentage, in net current expenditure between 1978–79 and 1984–85, (f) the rank order of percentage growth in net amount expenditure between 1978–79 and 1984–85 within each authority's class, (g) the cash growth, as a percentage, in net current expenditure between 1981–82 and 1984–85 and (h) the rank order of percentage growth in net current expenditure between 1981–82 and 1984–85 within each authority's class.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinThis analysis will be updated when I have received budget returns from all English local authorities.