§ Mr. FatchettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether the safety nets to be introduced for the inner London boroughs, to coincide with the introduction of the community charge and the abolition of the Inner London education authority, will be based on the actual level of spending by the Inner London education authority, or the Government's assessment of educational needs in individual boroughs; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. RumboldProposals have been put to the local authority associations about the basis for the national safety net adjustments to revenue support grant which will apply from 1 April 1990. The proposals do not envisage that the safety net spending assumption will be based on local authorities' needs assessments but the two options put forward do assume that safety nets will be based on a measure of spending in 1989–90 uprated for inflation. One option is to base the safety net spending assumption on the 1989–90 RSG settlement spending assumption; the other option is to base the safety net spending assumption on the actual domestic rate poundage levied in 1989–90.