Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 April 1987.
Hon. Nicholas Ridley
, Cirencester and Tewkesbury
12:00,
1 April 1987
The Labour party and the Conservative party—the Government—both agree that there should be overall control of local authority capital expenditure. The Liberal party, and the Social Democratic party—the alliance—have not made clear to me what their view on that is. If that is the case, an increase in the prescribed proportion of receipts would result in a reduction in capital allocations. That would be unproductive. It would make life harder for housing authorities in deprived areas in inner cities. Although the hon. Gentleman does not really care about the details, it would probably make life harder for Leeds than will leaving the percentage as it is.