London. Feb. 17.
'A White Paper was published tonight containing proposals which have emerged from expert investigation of the working of the formula under which an annual Exchequer grant of +£4,000,000 is distributed among local authorities In England and Wales towards the provision of health and other local services.
The total of the grant is to be increased to about £49,000,000 and, under a revised formula, which gives special weight to the amount of local unemployment and factors such as. sparse population, a larger share of the increased grant will be allocated. {to the poorer areas. where the need for social services is usually greatest.
'A. revision of the Block grant system was undertaken on account of the great inequalities of rates Prevailing in different localities, Attributable to the incidence of unemployment of industry in just those areas where its recovery was most. important, "Among the striking examples in the White Paper of the effects of re-Alstribution is the estimated gain of £51000 yearly to the Merthyr Tydfil derelict" mining village
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