HC Deb 03 July 1990 vol 175 cc536-7W
Mrs. Mahon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment has been made by his Department of the implications of community charge capping for local authority social service provision.

35. Mr. Illsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment has been made by his Department of the implications of community charge capping for local authority social service provision.

76. Mr. Allen McKay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment has been made by his Department of the implications of community charge capping for local authority social service provision.

112. Mr. McCartney

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment has been made by his Department of the implications of community charge capping for local authority social service provision.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The charge capping which, if the House approves, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment intends to set, represents his view of what is reasonable and appropriate in all the circumstances of the authorities concerned. It will be for each of the authorities to decide how to restrain their excessive budgets to within the level of the cap.