HC Deb 09 May 1995 vol 259 cc415-6W
Mr. Raynsford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will amend the capital finance regulations to enable local authorities in England to fund new energy efficiency measures in local authority housing through operating leases without these counting against the authority's capital spending limits. [22267]

Mr. Robert B. Jones

The capital finance regulations do not specify the kinds of equipment which may be the

it has done so on numerous occasions during the past three years.