§ Dr. Cunninghamasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assumption is made in table 1.9 of the autumn statement of 12 November about the level of local government block grant holdback to be incurred in 1985–86 by local authorities in (a) England and (b) Wales; and what are the respective figures.
§ Mr. Peter Rees[pursuant to his reply, 19 November 1984, c. 40]: It is not our practice to detail the individual assumptions underlying the forecasts of public finances in the autumn statement. The amount of grant holdback to be incurred in 1985–86 depends on the spending decisions of individual local authorities, which are not yet available.