§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list for (i) each London borough, (ii) London in total, (iii) England excluding Greater London and (iv) those authorities in his Department's top 20 most deprived local authority areas, rate support grant as a percentage of total expenditure for the financial years 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83 and 1983–84.
§ Mr. WaldegraveTotal expenditure information is not available in a consistent reliable form for years prior to 1981–82. In the table the figures for 1981–82 are based on outturn expenditure; those for 1982–83 and 1983–84 are based on local authorities' budgets.
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Block grant (after holdback) as a percentage of total expenditure 1981–82 per cent. 1982–83 per cent. 1983–84 per cent. (i) London Boroughs: City of London 0 0 0 Camden* 0 0 0 Greenwich 53.0 47.6 36.1 Hackney* 59.6 50.9 52.4 Hammersmith and Fulham* 56.9 52.7 57.6 Islington* 31.2 33.9 28.5 Kensington and Chelsea* 13.2 15.4 27.6 Lambeth* 48.2 47.8 40.5 Lewisham* 59.4 56.4 55.9 Southwark* 39.7 44.1 32.4 Tower Hamlets* 41.9 32.7 35.2 Wandsworth* 66.6 70.0 75.2 Westminster 0 0 0 Barking and Dagenham 41.9 42.0 43.7 Barnet 36.3 38.9 34.7 Bexley 50.9 51.4 55.6 Brent* 37.1 41.8 36.5 Bromley 47.3 48.8 46.6
1981–82 per cent. 1982–83 per cent. 1983–84 per cent. Croydon 46.7 45.9 41.6 Ealing 43.3 48.9 48.3 Enfield 41.7 41.7 44.4 Haringey* 48.7 46.8 39.3 Harrow 38.0 38.0 42.3 Havering 48.2 50.4 49.4 Hillingdon 25.8 24.0 22.9 Hounslow 24.9 23.6 24.3 Kingston-upon-Thames 37.5 40.0 36.9 Merton 45.9 47.5 45.1 Newham* 53.5 55.8 54.4 Redbridge 50.0 52.1 51.9 Richmond-upon-Thames 42.5 41.7 35.7 Sutton 46.6 48.0 45.8 Waltham forest 50.0 50.8 57.5 (ii) London in total 31.4 27.9 25.3 (iii) England excluding Greater London 48.6 45.4 44.6 (iv) "the top 20 most deprived local authority areas': those London boroughs marked * in (i) above and Birmingham 47.9 44.5 48.7 Coventry 53.2 50.9 49.6 Leicester 56.0 37.1 33.0 Liverpool 56.2 51.8 54.0 Manchester 47.0 42.8 39.5 Sandwell 35.6 40.0 44.6 Wolverhampton 42.3 45.5 45.4
§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give the amount of rate support grant paid per head of population in (i) each London borough, (ii) London as a whole, (iii) England excluding Greater London and (iv) England in the latest year for which information is available.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe information requested by the hon. Member is as follows. The figures are the amount of block grant per head in 1984–85, on the basis of local authorities' budgets for the year, before the implementation of any grant abatement.
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£ (i) City of London 0 Camden 0 Greenwich 148 Hackney 238 Hammersmith and Fulham 208 Islington 113 Kensington and Chelsea 52 Lambeth 188 Lewisham 184 Southwark 156 Tower Hamlets 139 Wandsworth 175 Westminster 0 Barking and Dagenham 168 Barnet 105 Bexley 203 Brent 238 Bromley 139 Croydon 129 Ealing 190 Enfield 157 Haringey 291 Harrow 151 Havering 171 Hillingdon 78 Hounslow 108
£ Kingston upon Thames 118 Merton 157 Newham 344 Redbridge 165 Richmond upon Thames 108 Sutton 147 Waltham Forest 286 (ii) London as a whole 161 (iii) England excluding Greater London 185 (iv) England 181