To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what the additional educational needs distribution would have been in the 1993–94 SSAs for each authority if the new census data were incorporated.

The additional education need index for 1993–94 recalculated to include information from the 1991 census is shown in the table.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment for what reasons the visitor rights factor was doubled in the other services block distribution in the 1991–92 standard spending assessments.

The decision to double the weight on visitor nights was taken in the light of a large number of representations from local authorities suggesting that the weight of 0·25 of a resident, used in 1990–91, took insufficient account of the costs associated with tourism in such areas as environmental health and street cleaning.