§ Mr. WilshireTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what proportion of the total value of the local government revenue support grant paid by his Department is attributable to allocations made for expenditure on services for which other Departments of State have primary responsibility.
Mr. SquireThe amount of revenue support grant paid to each receiving authority makes up the difference between the standard spending assessment for the area and the income the authority would receive from the community charge for standard spending plus redistributed non-domestic rates.
Total standard spending assessments for 1992–93, service by service, are as follows:
£ million Percentage Education 18,352.7 48.3 Personal social services 4,734.6 12.5 Police 2,671.4 7.0 Fire and civil defence 1,105.2 2.9 Highways maintenance 1,806.0 4.8 All other services 6,834.9 18.0 Capital financing 2,487.9 6.5 37,992.7 100.0 Services provided by my Department are covered by the all other services and capital financing blocks but cannot be identified separately within them.
Revenue support grant is not hypothecated to expenditure on particular services.