§ The Minister for the Environment (Mr. Michael Meacher)Report number 109 has been laid today seeking agreement to the distribution of the £40 million funding for English local authorities through a special grant. We propose that the amount payable to an authority will be allocated according to the formula used for county services within the Environmental, Protective and Cultural Services SSA block, in the same manner that the previous allocation was calculated.
Our officials are writing to each local authority concerned with details of the special grant and the process by which they will receive their allocation.