§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if the proposed methodology for constructing the assessments of need for the new local authority grant system envisages a negative outturn.
§ Mr. HowardWe do not envisage negative assessments for any individual authority.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the separate needs of subheadings used by him at present for local authority grants and referred to in paragraph 15 of the Yellow Paper "The New Grant System", indicating those which will not be required under the proposed system.
§ Mr. HowardThe needs subheadings used for 1987–88 are listed in the document "Grant-Related Expenditure 1987–88" which is available in the Library. The details of the new arrangements will be decided after discussion with local authority representatives, but there are likely to be significantly fewer subheadings than at present.