§ Mr. Corbynasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the average cost to public funds of each redundancy amongst local authority employees in each of the last two years.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThis information is not available.
§ Mr. Amessasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he intends to include the redundancy payments to local authority employees as a disregard in relation to grant-related expenditure assessment.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerMy right hon. Friend will consider all representations from local authorities and their associations for expenditure to be disregarded in assessing liability for grant abatement, including redundancy payment.