§ Mr. Tony BanksTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what assumptions were made about the increase in weekly council house rents for 1989–90 and the percentage increase in management and maintenance expenditure in 1989–90 compared with 1988–89 in the calculation of grant-related expenditure indicator E7, rate fund contributions to the housing revenue account, included in the exemplifications presented to members of the Consultative Council on Local Government Finance as paper CCLGF (88) 15.
§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomley[holding answer 25 November 1988]: The E7 factor for 1989–90 included in the exemplifications produced for CCLGF assumed a rent increase of £1.65 per week and a 9 per cent. increase in management and maintenance expenditure. The rent increase was subsequently revised to £1.75 per week for the exemplifications in the consultation paper on the 1989–90 RSG settlement issued on 11 November.