§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement setting out the 556W information the Government obtain in relation to the use of both spent and unspent capital receipts of local authorities.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerCentral Government do not collect information on the use which local authorities make of their capital receipts. So far as housing capital expenditure and capital receipts for 1983–84 are concerned, I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Construction to my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Staffordshire (Mr. Heddle) on 20 July 1984, at column 360.