§ Mr. Spencerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has decided the deemed rent increase, and the increase in reckonable expenditure on management and maintenance of their own housing, for local authorities receiving housing subsidy.
§ Mr. John PattenWe have considered carefully the views of the local authority associations on the consultation papers which were sent to them in November on the subject of calculating entitlement to housing subsidy for 1986–87.
My right hon. Friend has decided, jointly with the Secretary of State for Wales, to determine an increase in the local contribution of 65p a dwelling a week. It is for local authorities themselves to decide how to finance that contribution. On management and maintenance, it has been decided to increase the expenditure counting towards the subsidy calculated by 4 per cent. over the level assumed for 1985–86.