asked the Minister of Health the amount of the provisional grants calculated to be paid to the London County Council out of the new grants under the Local Government Act, 1929, in respect of the year ending 31st March, 1931; the amount of the additional Exchequer grant payable to the county council as provisionally calculated; the sum so calculated to be set aside under Section 98 out of the county apportionment for payments to the Common Council of the City of London, and the councils of the Metropolitan boroughs; the respective amounts which were, as provisionally calculated, payable to the councils by the Ministry and the county council under Section 100 in order to guarantee the respective councils against loss; and whether the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich is an area as respects which there is a gain resulting from the provisions of Parts I, V, and VI, apart from the guarantee under Section 100, as disclosed by the provisional calculations?

The information asked for is as follows:I. STATEMENT showing the sums provisionally calculated to be payable to the London County Council out of the new Grants under the Local Government Act, 1929, in respect of the year ending the 31st March, 1931.

	(Approximate) £
Amount of the County Apportionment as provisionally calculated [Section 88 (2)]	3,995,000
Amount of the Additional Exchequer Grant to the County Council as provisionally calculated [Section 99]	151,000
Total of foregoing sums	4,146,000
Deduct, as provisionally calculated:
The sum to be set aside under Section 98, out of the County Apportionment, for payments to the Common Council of the City of London and the Councils of Metropolitan Boroughs	1,564,000
Residue, being the amount payable by the Minister of Health to the County Council as the General Exchequer Grant of the Council (apart from the Supplementary Exchequer Grant payable under Section 100), in respect of the year ending 31st March, 1931, as provisionally calculated	2,582,000
Amount as provisionally calculated, of the Supplementary Exchequer Grant payable under Section 100 to the County Council, being one-half of the aggregate of the sums set out in Statement II	179,000
Total of sums payable to the County Council	2,761,000

II. STATEMENT showing in respect of each of the under-mentioned Metropolitan Boroughs [being Boroughs as respects which a "loss" resulting from the operation of Parts I, V and VI (apart from Section 100) of the Local Government Act, 1929, is disclosed by the provisional calculations], the sum which under Section 100 should be credited to the Borough (or areas therein) and applied in reduction of the amount which would otherwise be contributed by the Borough (or areas therein) towards the amount required for general county purposes.