HC Deb 29 April 1919 vol 115 cc25-8W
Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS

asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can give a list of the principal advances to highway authorities (i.e., advances of £10,000 and upwards) made and promised by the Road Board since the issue of the Board's circular of 17th December, 1918?

Mr. BALDWIN

I am circulating a list of the Grants exceeding £10,000 already made or promised.

The following is the list referred to—

ENGLAND AND WALES.
Highway Authority. Amount (omitting fractions of thousands).
County Councils. £
Bedford 68,000
Berkshire 80,000
Cornwall 110,000
Cumberland 40,000
Derby 196,000
Devon 150,000
Dorset 80,000
Durham 165,000
Ely, Isle of 16,000
Essex 342,000
Gloucester 120,000
Hereford 65,000
Herts 147,000
Kent 250,000
Lancs 305,000
Leicester 75,000
Lincs—Holland 28,000
Lincs—Kesteven 39,000
Middlesex (Hornsey T.C.) 15,000
Northampton 52,000
Nottingham 100,000
Oxford 50,000
Peterborough—Soke of 10,000
Somerset 137,000
Stafford 208,000
Suffolk—West 40,000
Surrey 200,000
Sussex—East 64,000
Sussex—West 80,000
Warwick 110,000
Wight—Isle of 26,000
Worcester 100,000
Yorks—North Riding 107,000
Yorks—West Riding 310,000
Carmarthen 40,000
Carnarvon 35,000
Denbigh 50,000
Flint 25,000
Glamorgan 134,000
Monmouth 85,000

Highway Authority. Amount (omitting fractions of thousands).
County Boroughs. £
Blackburn 15,000
Blackpool 10,000
Bradford 40,000
Bristol 45,000
Coventry 17,000
Croydon 20,000
Gateshead 13,000
Leeds 64,000
Middlesbrough 15,000
Norwich 15,000
Nottingham 35,000
Portsmouth 35,000
Preston 10,000
Salford 37,000
Sheffield 58,000
South Shields 11,000
Stockport 14,000
Stoke-on-Trent 20,000
Sunderland 20,000
Walsall 10,000
York 10,000
Cardiff 20,000
Merthyr Tydvil 12,000
Swansea 18,000
Metropolitan Boroughs.
Battersea 40,000
Bethnal Green 16,000
Deptford 18,000
Finsbury 15,000
Fulham 25,000
Greenwich 20,000
Hackney 50,000
Hammersmith 30,000
Hampstead 24,000
Holborn 15,000
Islington 50,000
Kensington 47,000
Lambeth 50,000
Lewisham 21,000
Paddington 25,000
Poplar 48,000
St. Marylebone 28,000
St. Pancras 40,000
Shoreditch 25,000
Southwark 31,000
Stepney 40,000
Stoke Newington 13,000
Wandsworth 60,000
Westminster 50,000
SCOTLAND.
County Councils.
Ayrshire 41,000
Dumbarton 30,000
Fifeshire 25,000
Lanarkshire 89,000

Highway Authority. Amount (omitting fractions of thousands).
County Councils. £
Linlithgow 16,000
Midlothian 44,000
Refrew 27,000
Stirling 25,000
Town Councils.
Edinburgh 13,000

Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS

asked the Secretary to the Treasury what steps have been taken by the Road Board to encourage, assist, and put into operation immediately urgent and necessary road works in districts in which the percentage of persons drawing Government unemployment pay is above the average?

Mr. BALDWIN

The Road Board are dealing promptly with all applications for Grants from highway authorities in whose districts unemployment exists.