Rate Support Grant Mr. John Evans asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what is the total amount of rate support grant that will be paid to local authorities in Scotland, Wales and each of the eight English regions served by a regional economic planning council in 1975–76; and what was the figure for each of the last five years;(2) what is the amount, per head of population, of the rate support grant that will be paid to local authorities in Scotland, Wales and each of the eight regions of England served by a regional economic planning council in 1975–76; and what were the figures for each of the last five years. Mr. Oakes Details of the total amount of rate support grant paid to economic planning council regions during the years 1970–71 to 1973–74 are not readily available. The overall total of grant and amount per head of population for Scotland, Wales and England for those years is: ---------- | | ---------- |Scotland| ---------- |Wales | ---------- |England | ---------- | | ---------- |Scotland| ---------- |Wales | ---------- |England | ---------- | | ---------- |Scotland| ---------- |Wales | ---------- |England | ---------- | | ---------- |Scotland| ---------- |Wales | ---------- |England | ---------- Subject to any further increase order, current figures for 1974–75 are: -------------------------- | | -------------------------- |Scotland | -------------------------- |Wales | -------------------------- |England | -------------------------- |Northern | -------------------------- |Yorkshire and Humberside| -------------------------- |North West | -------------------------- |East Midlands | -------------------------- |West Midlands | -------------------------- |East Anglia | -------------------------- |South East | -------------------------- |South West | -------------------------- The resources element of the grant in England and Wales for 1975–76 payable to an authority is based on its estimated expenditure for that year. This information has yet to be provided by authorities and therefore no details are currently available.