HC Deb 15 June 1994 vol 244 cc567-8W
Mr. Tipping

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has to increase the planned level of total standard spending for 1995–96 to meet the transitional costs arising from local government reform in England.

Mr. Curry

For 1994–95 local authorities subject to reorganisation will be able to borrow to meet transitional costs. I expect that similar arrangements will apply for 1995–96 and subsequent years, and we shall take account of those arrangements in the local government finance settlement each year. The amount in 1995–96 will depend on decisions about areas to be reorganised which have yet to be made.