HC Deb 28 October 1997 vol 299 cc806-7W
Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what estimate his Department has made of the additional annual revenue costs or savings achieved by new local authorities created since 1994 relative to the revenue costs of their predecessor authorities in their last year of operation. [12940]

Mr. Raynsford

The Department has made no estimates of this nature.