§ Mr. Tim Smithasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the excess of revenue over expenditure for each of the regional water authorities in 1976–77.
§ Mr. Denis HowellThe surplus of income over revenue expenditure, after allocations to reserves and excluding balances brought forward from the previous year, for the year 1976–77 for each of the water authorities was:
£000 North West … 6,416 Northumbrian … 4,845 Yorkshire … 3,584 Severn Trent … 20,843 Anglian … 5,944 Thames … 17,648 Southern … 1,238 South West … 509 Welsh National Water Development Authority … 1,662 The Wessex water authority in that year had a deficit of £133,000.