To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment on what basis his Department assessed Warwickshire county council to earn interest of £6·7 million as set out in the standard spending assessment for 1991–92.

The basis of the assessment is set out in paragraphs 3.50 and 3.51 of the Revenue Support Grant Distribution Report (England) which was approved by the House on 18 January 1990. The assessment for interest receipts is calculated in proportion to an authority's standard spending assessment for all services, except the capital financing element.