Mr. Robert AinsworthTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how much grant(a) Coventry city council, (b) Solihull metropolitan borough, (c) Walsall metropolitan borough, (d) Wandsworth borough council and (e) Westminster city council will receive this year as a result of homelessness being a factor in the standard spending assessment settlement.
§ Mr. BaldryIndicators of homelessness contribute the following amounts to the specified authorities' standard spending assessments for 1994–95:
Authority £ million Coventry city council -1.483 Solihull metropolitan borough -0.155 Walsall metropolitan borough -3.091 London borough of Wandsworth -2.296 Westminster city council -4.218 Homelessness is one of a large number of indicators that are included within composite indices in the personal social services and the all other services service blocks.
Mr. Robert AinsworthTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he received from(a) the Association of District Authorities, (b) the Association of County Councils and (c) the Association of Metropolitan Authorities about the use of nature of tenure as a proxy for disadvantaged for the purpose of standard spending assessment distribution.
§ Mr. BaldrySince my right hon. Friend announced details of the provisional revenue support grant settlement for 1994–95, none of the local authority associations listed has made representations on the use of nature of housing tenure as an indicator in standard spending' assessments.
Indicators of the nature of housing tenure are used in the personal social services and all other services standard spending assessments. We discussed these assessments with representatives of each of the local authority associations as part of the review of standard spending assessments for 1994–95.