To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was (a) the total spending and (b) the total amount of Government grant in Somerset, Devon and Dorset county councils in each of the past four years; what was the total amount raised in non-domestic rates in those years for each county; and what are his estimates of (i) spending, (ii) the total of Government grant and (iii) redistribution from the national business rate for each in 1990–91.

The available information is given in the table. Revenue support grant and receipts from the national non-domestic rate pool are not paid to county councils.