To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Monklands, West of 15 March, Official Report, columns 558–59, if he will list those local authorities which did, and those which did not, experience real expenditure increases on the personal social services, as indicated by the national personal social services current expenditure revaluation factor, of 3·5 per cent. or more, and by how much, during 1987–88.

The information is given in the tables. Table 1 lists those local authorities whose budgeted personal social services expenditure for 1987–88 exceeded their estimated expenditure for 1986–87, uprated by the national personal social services current expenditure revaluation factor, by more than 3·5 per cent. and indicates the difference in cash terms. Table 2 lists those authorities whose expenditure increased by less than 3·5 per cent. on the same terms as table 1.