HC Deb 14 December 1988 vol 143 c618W
35. Mr. Livingstone

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the level of rate support grant for the London borough of Brent.

Mrs. Bottomley

On our latest calculations, Brent will receive £74 million of block grant this year.

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will be laying the 1989–90 rate support grant settlement shortly. Under our consultation proposals Brent would receive £86 million, £19 million more than this year after allowing for the changed treatment of polytechnics. This is an increase of 28 per cent. over 1988–89.