Local Government (Rate Support and General Grant)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 December 1966.

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Photo of Sir Edward Boyle Sir Edward Boyle , Birmingham Handsworth 12:00, 20 December 1966

How can the right hon. Gentleman be sure that this percentage will be devoted to education under the new arrangements? It may well happen that, at local level, education will not give it the same priority for grant expenditure and that rate expenditure will have to rise correspondingly. Indeed, the whole rationale of the general grant system we introduced was that the present situation could not arise because the Government would pay due regard to the estimates of relevant expenditure brought forward by the local authorities.