§ Mr. Cartwrightasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will set out the allocation made to the London borough of Greenwich under the homes insulation scheme for each year since its inception together with the actual amounts spent and the number of grants made.
§ Sir George YoungThe latest available information is set out in the following table:
Financial year Allocation Expenditure Grants made £ £ *1978–79 46,000 25,000 777 1979–80 88,000 52,000 1,158 1980–81 72,000 52,000 1,016 1981–82 130,000 88,000 1,449 1982–83 115,000 †13,000 †502 * The scheme started in September 1978.
† First quarter only.
Following the announcement by my right hon. Friend—given in a written reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Reading, North (Mr. Durant) on 27 October 1982—inviting local authorities which were not under-spending to bid for increases in their capital spending allocations for the current year, we are allocating an additional £50,000 to the London borough of Greenwich to meet its request for extra funds for grants under the homes insulation scheme.—[Vol. 29, c. 455.]