Standard Spending Assessments

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 June 1992.

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Photo of Mr Robin Squire Mr Robin Squire , Hornchurch 12:00, 17 June 1992

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I sympathise with some of his points. He will have heard my earlier answer on community care: the Government will not make an announcement until the autumn. However, to repeat something that I said a few moments ago, standard spending assessments are calculated according to general principles and are applied in the same way to all authorities. One of the reasons why my hon. Friend's local authority will receive a relatively lower SSA is that, by most measurements of need, it does not have the same degree of need as other areas with higher SSAs.