§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the means by which the Government will determine the share which the new police authorities proposed in the White Paper on policereforms—Cm. 2281, June 1993—will have of non-domestic rate revenues.
§ Mr. BaldryIn England, the non-domestic rates pool is distributed to local authorities as an amount per head of resident population. Currently, where more than one authority provides services in an area, this amount per head is shared among the authorities in line with the national shares of standard spending assessments for the services which each provides. Our current intention is to determine the share of the pool to be received by the new police 343W authorities in the same way. The arrangements in Wales are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.