§ Mr. PikeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those local authorities where the rate support grant settlement for 1989–90 shows an increase of less than 3 per cent.; and what is the average percentage increase for all local authorities.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe list below shows those authorities with increases in block grant of less than 3 per cent. between 1988–89 and 1989–90. The average increase for England is 8.8 per cent. The grant figures for 1988–89 have been adjusted for the transfer of higher education establishments to the polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council.
Authorities with increase of less than 3 per cent. in block grant between 1988–89 and 1989–90 East Cambridgeshire Craven Caradon Ryedale Erewash Ashfield North East Derbyshire Gedling Mid Devon Vale of White Horse North Dorset Oswestry Lewes Mendip Rother Sedgemoor Brentwood Taunton Deane Cotswold South Somerset East Hampshire Tamworth Rushmoor Warwick Malvern Hills Chichester Holderness St. Helens Kingston upon Hull Barnsley Ashford Rotherham Gravesham Gateshead Maidstone Hounslow Rochester upon Medway Avon Tunbridge Wells Dorset Fylde Essex South Ribble Hampshire Boston Isle of Wight East Lindsey North Yorkshire South Holland Nottinghamshire South Kesteven Staffordshire King's Lynn and West Suffolk Norfolk Wiltshire Tynedale