Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 March 1979.
We have had discussions with the local authorities during the last couple of years about the general question of specific grants. It was precisely these discussions that I had in mind when I said that local authorities which resist root and branch the imposition of specific grants are not helping their case by not using money given to them for this purpose.