HC Deb 29 April 1975 vol 891 cc94-5W
Mr. Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report the value of central grants or loans given to local authorities in Cheshire, particularly the Congleton Borough Council and the Macclesfield Borough Council, for the purpose of improving existing council housing in the last five years for which figures are available.

Mr. Kaufman

The totals of allowable costs approved for Government contribution in respect of improvements to council-owned dwellings in Cheshire and in the boroughs of Congleton and Macclesfield were as follows:

Cheshire * including Congleton and Macclesfield Congleton Macclesfield
£ £ £
1970 417,000 75,000 9,000
1971 842,000 87,000 28,000
1972 2,507,000 421,000 166,000
1973 6,449,000 386,000 592,000
1974 1,115,000 364,000 234,000

* Figures for 1970 to 1973 are for Cheshire as constituted prior to local government reorganisation in April 1974.