§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the overall identifiable allocation of public money made by the Government since 1979 to
Identifiable grants and subsidies paid to Wolverhampton district council 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 (i) In total (£1 million) 60.0 73.8 65.9 68.3 87.7 90.1 95.5 (capital grants in brackets) (0.8) (1.1) (1.0) (2.3) (0.7) (n/a) (n/a) (ii) Per person 223 288 257 267 343 353 374 (iii) Per unemployed person n/a n/a n/a n/a 3,960 3,954 4,191 (iv) Per unemployed person under 20 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 20,018 22,422 (v) Per person of pensionable age 1,463 1,766 1,555 1,595 2,030 2,066 2,189 Notes:
1. The figures include rate support grant, housing subsidies, housing benefit, specific revenue grants and capital grants. Capital grants are not available however for 1984–85 and 1985–86. The amounts included for capital grants in the totals for the earlier years are shown in brackets under line (i) of the table.
2. The figures included for rate support grant are affected by the change which occurred in 1981–82 when block grant and domestic rate relief grant superseded the needs, resources and domestic elements. Figures prior to 1981–82 are not on a comparable basis.
3. Up to 1982–83 the figures include rent and rate rebates paid by the DOE. The 1982–83 figures also include some housing benefits paid by the DHSS. Thereafter, all housing benefits were paid by the DHSS.
4. The figures only include grants and subsidies to the Wolverhampton district council and do not include any payments to persons, companies or other organisations within the area administered by that authority. Information on the latter is not readily available. If such payments could be included. the figures would be very much larger.
5. The figures also exclude any proportion of the grants paid to West Midlands county council which is the upper tier authority for Wolverhampton.
6. Estimates of population figures for use in calculating lines (ii) and (v) of the table were obtained from OPCS. 1984–85 figures have been used as estimates for 1985–86.
7. The figures in lines (iii) and (iv) are based on unemployment data from the Department of Employment. These are not available before 1983–84. Figures for unemployed persons under 20 have been used in place of those for persons under 21, which are not available. These can only be supplied for 1984–85 and 1985–86.