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Immigrants (Local Authority Grants)

Volume 961: debated on Tuesday 23 January 1979

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list those projects that benefited from the £941,400 grant under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 in Walsall for the year 1977–78.

The figure of £941,400 given in the reply to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich, West (Miss Boothroyd) represented expenditure incurred during 1977–78 by Walsall and notified by that authority as eligible for grant under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966.—[Vol. 960, c. 312–4.] Grant is payable at the rate of 75 per cent. of audited figures. The breakdown of the figure is:

£ (nearest 100)
Teachers815,200
Other education staff116,000
Environmental health officers4,400
Other staff5,800