asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report the amount and the level of the rate support grant allocated to the South Yorkshire county council, and each of the districts in South Yorkshire this year, indicating how this differs from previous years.

Rate support grant is not paid to metropolitan county councils. The amount of RSG paid to each of the district councils within South Yorkshire in respect of the years 1974–75 to 1978–79 and the latest estimates for 1979–80 based on the first increase order for that year are as follows: