§ Mr. WattsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list for each local authority the reduction in council tax benefit subsidy, expressed(a) in cash and (b) as a proportion of the yield from the standard council tax, that will occur in the event that each authority's budgeted expenditure in 1999–2000 exceeds by an amount equal to 1 per cent. of its standard spending assessment the point at which benefit subsidy begins to be withdrawn; and if he will make the information available to local authorities in machine-readable form. [68927]
§ Ms ArmstrongThe information is not available.
An authority's guideline increase and its council tax increase will depend on factors such as collection fund surpluses and deficits, information on which is not currently available to my Department.