§ Dr. Cunninghamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the value of Exchequer subsidies and rate fund contributions, separately, to local authorities' housing revenue account dwellings, on a per dwelling basis, for the years 1978–79 to 1985–86, and the
664W estimate for 1986–87, and the number of local authority housing revenue account dwellings on which these figures are based.
1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 Greater Manchester Bury 0 0 0 138,700 0 Merseyside St. Helens 0 887,000 0 0 0 South Yorkshire Tyne and Wear South Tyneside 0 0 0 2,841,278 1,327,550 West Midlands Birmingham 0 0 0 273,300 0 Dudley 0 0 1,000,000 1,750,000 0 West Yorkshire Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 0 0 247,540 Barking and Dagenham 0 1,138,713 2,840,000 2,544,000 4,323,500 Barnet 0 428,492 0 0 0 Bexley 0 0 0 1,268,100 8,000 Bromley 48,064 69,855 159,080 2,294,956 0 Ealing 0 218,349 183,974 682,892 983,700 Havering 216,660 1,651,025 1,917,311 1 329,960 Hillingdon 1,129,757 693,033 954,514 1,112,610 1,902,180 Kingston-upon-Thames 0 1,894,601 1,321,994 1,884,789 2,445,200 Merton 0 0 1,030,903 1,313,855 0 Redbridge 0 0 12,000 90,000 90,000 Sutton 0 191,169 321,408 367,360 347,600 Avon Wansdyke 0 0 464,500 1,926,800 1,366,200 Woodspring 300,784 1,060,398 809,979 635,723 683,390 Bedfordshire South Bedfordshire 0 0 30,517 65,646 76,485
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe available information is as follows. It is based on information provided by local authorities in their housing subsidy claim forms. The 1985–86 figures are estimates; estimates for 1986–87 are not yet available.
Year Housing subsidy per dwelling £ Net rate fund contribution per dwelling£ 1978–79 198.27 40.73 1979–80 253.10 65.43 1980–81 281.36 86.77 1981–82 175.96 82.06 1982–83 90.61 88.47 1983–84 69.04 85.88 1984–85 83.00 92.06 1985–86 95.89 95.19