asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the level of central Government grants allocated to local government finances in the west midlands region in each single year since 1979.

The readily available information is given in the table. Further details, including housing subsidies and housing benefits, could be given only at disproportionate cost.

west midlands region's local authorities for each single year since 1982; and what proportion of their grants they lost in the form of penalties during the same period.

This information is in the table. Expenditure guidance for 1981–82 related only to current expenditure as defined for rate support grant purposes, and is in November 1980 prices. Guidance for other years

	1981–82		1928–83		1983–84		1984–85		1985–86
	Guidance	Penalty as a percentage of grant before	Guidance	Penalty as a percentage of grant before	Guidance	Penalty as a percentage of grant before	Guidance	Penalty as a percentage of grant before	Guidance
	£ million	penalty	£ million	penalty	£ million	penalty	£ million	penalty	£ million
West Midlands CC	198·413	10·57	196·923	14·58	226·102	20·39	229·437	32·57	254·024
Birmingham	280·032	—	363·764	—	373·816	—	373·557	—	387·123
Coventry	32·067	—	113·317	—	117·655	0·06	119·391	—	122·548
Dudley	58·285	—	85·445	—	83·347	—	85·916	—	90·653
Sandwell	77·480	9·99	105·771	—	109·939	—	112·105	—	116·263
Solihull	46·553	—	63·490	—	61·660	—	62·875	—	64·958
Walsall	63·976	7·89	89·017	11·79	96·067	1·42	97·484	4·04	100·117
Wolverhampton	65·498	7·55	95·567	—	98·342	—	100·248	—	102·991
Hereford and Worcester CC	154·393	—	197·220	—	203·759	—	207·773	0·90	219·052
Bromsgrove	2·177	—	3·236	—	2·593	—	2·623	—	2·708
Hereford	1·628	—	2·381	—	2·366	—	2·409	—	2·499
Leominster	0·841	—	1·768	—	1·424	—	1·448	—	1·505
Malvern Hills	2·299	—	3·663	—	3·253	—	3·440	4·14	3·640
Redditch	2·569	—	3·285	—	3·570	—	3·617	—	3·728
South Herefordshire	1·155	—	1·999	—	1·583	—	1·627	—	1·646
Worcester	2·542	—	3·932	—	3·948	0·38	4·039	—	4·163
Wychavon	3·757	—	4·349	—	4·473	—	4·539	—	4·654
Wyre Forest	3·988	10·25	5·948	—	6·205	—	6·297	—	6·490
Shropshire CC	95·452	—	123·198	—	124·994	1·10	127·456	0·35	133·798
Bridgnorth	1·229	—	2·012	—	1·562	—	1·593	—	1·656
North Shropshire	1·425	—	2·101	—	1·910	1·980	—	—	2·104
Oswestry	0·898	—	1·433	—	1·186	—	1·205	—	1·252
Shrewsbury and Atcham	2·512	—	3·935	—	3·625	—	3·696	—	3·841
South Shropshire	1·132	—	1·593	—	1·454	—	1·479	—	1·537
The Wrekin	4·650	7·36	7·014	—	7·247	—	7·354	—	7·579
Staffordshire CC	264·974	—	324·372	—	338·383	1·26	343·374	7·10	366·929
Cannock Chase	1·953	—	4·002	—	4·086	—	4·083	—	4·126
East Staffordshire	2·491	—	4·720	—	3·872	—	4·188	—	4·203
Lichfield	2·240	—	3·436	—	2·979	—	2·977	—	3·092
Newcastle-under-Lyme	4·232	—	5·463	—	5·530	—	5·612	—	5·784
South Staffordshire	2·196	—	3·913	—	2·982	—	2·980	—	3·097
Stafford	3·026	—	5·225	—	4·351	—	4·474	—	4·730
Staffordshire Moorlands	2·449	—	3·894	—	4·000	—	4·027	—	3·943
Stoke-on-Trent	8·939	—	13·483	—	13·147	—	13·470	6·80	13·882
Tamworth	1·950	—	3·069	—	3·115	—	3·113	—	3·235
Warwickshire	120·654	—	150·215	—	155·211	0·89	158·002	1·88	165·366
North Warwickshire	1·837	—	2·596	—	2·684	1·25	2·724	—	2·807
Nuneaton and Bedworth	4·468	—	7·098	—	7·405	—	7·400	—	7·429
Rugby	2·868	—	3·958	—	3·829	—	3·969	—	4·125
Stratford on Avon	3··013	—	4·468	—	4·245	—	4·334	—	4·561
Warwick	3·502	—	5·665	—	5·118	—	5·114	2·76	5·355

relates to total expenditure, and is in cash. The percentages take account of all disregards granted, and are based on block grant entitlements before holdback on the latest supplementary report for each year. Grant penalties have not so far been approved by the House and implemented for 1985–86.