§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the treatment by him of capital receipts available to local authorities in respect of the overall allocation for England of education capital expenditure, and in respect of each allocation to each individual local authority.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe relationship between gross provision for local authority capital expenditure, allocations and the spending power from capital receipts is set out for 1987–88 in chapter 4 of the 1987 public expenditure White Paper (Cm. 56). As table 4.7 in Cm. 56 shows, spending power from receipts is taken into account in setting a total for capital allocations across the relevant authority services concerned which is compatible with the Government's public expenditure plans. The allocations made to individual local authorities cannot under the existing legislation take account of the receipts available to those authorities.