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Mr. Dykes
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will examine the scope for additional Departmental assistance to outer London boroughs incurring unavoidable additional expenditure outlays from extra statutory burdens since 1987–88.
Mr. Key
We are satisfied that standard spending assessments take proper account of all statutory burdens falling on each class of authority.