§ Ms. Harmanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to ensure that where money has been awarded under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966, the local authorities are guaranteed a 100 per cent. disregard from rate capping of the money they allocate to maintain the projects in question.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerUnder rate limitation a limit. is set on the rate an authority may raise to finance its spending; but selected authorities had the opportunity to seek re-determination of the expenditure levels on which their rate limits were to be based. No such re-determination were sought. My right hon. Friend will consider carefully the representations he has received from Southwark and other authorities that this expenditure should be disregarded for grant penalty purposes.