My right honourable friend the Minister for Housing and Planning (Caroline Flint) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

Following the Government’s announcement of provisional allocations for housing and planning delivery grant for 2008-09, a number of local authorities expressed concern that their grant had been abated for poor performance on development control. Unfortunately, a figure of 80 per cent was used for all development control targets on which grant is abated, rather than of 60 per cent, 65 per cent and 80 per cent for major, minor and other applications.

The abatement figures have now been corrected. The changes affect all local authority provisional allocations, as there is less abated grant to be redistributed to unabated authorities.

A revised schedule of local authority provisional allocations has been placed in the Library of the House.