HC Deb 08 June 1999 vol 332 c225W
Mr. Kidney

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 21 May 1999,Official Report, column 471, on school budgets, if it is his objective in carrying out the present review of the formula for distributing central Government grant to local authorities to remove factors that cannot be justified by reference to actual cost and other objectively verifiable criteria. [85703]

Ms Armstrong

The objectives of the current review of revenue grant distribution are to investigate thoroughly whether there is a better way of determining the distribution of revenue support grant which is simpler, more stable, more robust and fairer than the present arrangements for SSAs. These objectives were set out in last year's White Paper, "Modern Local Government—In Touch with the People".