§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will tabulate, in theOfficial Report, the amount of precept levied by the Metropolitan police on each of the local authorities within its area, distinguishing those wholly within the Greater London area, for the years 1989–90 and 1990–91 respectively, together with their respective adult populations for each year and the amount contributed per head for both years, together with the percentage increase or decrease in the two per capita contributions.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe funding arrangements for local authorities which came into operation this year mean that it is not meaningful to compare on a per capita basis the amounts levied by precept by the receiver for the Metropolitan police in 1989–90 and in 1990–91. This is because the precept in 1989–90 was not a per capita charge, but expressed as so many pence in the pound of rateable value; because it included rates on commercial properties in the area concerned, while moneys raised through the360W new uniform business rates are redistributed to local authorities on a national basis; and it did not include block grant, which is paid to the receiver directly, while revenue support grant which replaces block grant is paid into the collection funds on which the precept is levied.