Mr. Manningasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amounts advanced to date to each of the Metropolitan Borough Councils in respect of war-damage repairs to private houses carried out by their repair organisations together with the amounts advanced to the Ministry of Works in respect of each of these boroughs in which the Ministry of Works repair organisation has been carrying out war-damage repairs on behalf of the local authorities.
§ Mr. DaltonThe amounts advanced to each Metropolitan borough council, for repair of dwelling houses, are shown below. Until June, 1944, each borough paid the Ministry of Works direct for the services of that Department's repair organisation and of contractors employed by406W it. These payments were repaid to the boroughs by the War Damage Commission and are included in the sums shown below. After June, 1944, when the flying bomb and rocket attacks began, these arrangements were replaced by bulk payments by the War Damage Commission to the Ministry of Works. These payments amount to about…24,500,000, but cover services rendered by the Ministry of Works not only to Metropolitan boroughs, but also to many outer London and provincial authorities.
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCILS Total Advances and Payments to 21st February,1946 Council Total £ Battersea 3,096,141 Bermondsey 1,820,000 Bethnal Green 851,206 Camberwell 3,985,064 Chelsea 881,965 Deptford 2,704,192 Finsbury 573,826 Fulham 1,690;854 Greenwich 2,680,274 Hackney 3,813,000 Hammersmith 1,279.461 Hampstead 777,610 Holborn 165,636 Islington 3,654,000 Kensington 1,581,672 Lambeth 5,617,922 Lewisham 4,992,600 Paddington 903,021 Poplar 2,123,000 St. Marylebone 602,436 St. Panoras 2,014,000 Shoreditch 640,000 Southwark 2,358,887 Stepney 1,654,000 Stoke Newington 1,110,000 Wandsworth 6,253,000 Westminster 1,049,800 Woolwich 3,970,011 Totals …62,843,578