HC Deb 18 July 1989 vol 157 c87W
121. Mr. Summerson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many dockers have applied for redundancy following the abolition of the dock labour scheme; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Portillo

At 14 July, 1,678 former registered dock workers had been made redundant following the abolition of the dock labour scheme. That is about 18.5 per cent. of the number on the register when the scheme ended. Almost all of these redundancies were either voluntary or in respect of companies which had gone into liquidation or otherwise ceased trading.

Authorities 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88
Street lighting £'000 Per cent. of road spend that is street lighting Street lighting £'000 Per cent. of road spend that is street lighting Street lighting £'000 Per cent. of road spend that is street lighting Street lighting £'000 Per cent. of road spend that is street lighting Street lighting £'000 Per cent. of road spend that is street lighting
Greater London 5,098 13 5,124 11 5,581 14
Barking 381 25 413 22 475 26 691 21 566
Barnet 503 13 655 11 523 14 647 10 701
Bexley 424 15 420 14 430 14 622 12 584
Brent 448 14 482 16 494 16 629 15 393
Bromley 522 11 537 11 657 13 905 11 712
Camden 652 21 890 17 538 17 705 16 746
City of London 424 16 409 13 418 13 360 11 381
Croydon 616 17 668 15 658 12 895 11 889
Ealing 519 14 468 12 670 14 792 13 559
Enfield 513 21 525 23 448 19 686 16 616
Greenwich 795 21 830 21 729 18 955 16 1,010
Hackney 512 20 981 24 827 18 958 13 705
Hammersmith and Fulham 437 12 716 12 443 13 599 12 529
Haringey 347 18 391 15 404 16 488 15 517
Harrow 521 15 510 20 591 19 474 22 673
Havering 466 15 481 15 472 14 566 12 513
Hillingdon 415 18 432 17 471 19 637 11 674
Hounslow 311 16 338 17 379 18 493 17 521
Islington 357 23 374 24 338 9 449 9 544
Kensington 441 21 494 22 494 18 800 19 1,091
Kingston-upon-Thames 316 20 250 14 301 17 412 15 393
Lambeth 630 25 504 17 660 23 882 22 934
Lewisham 552 12 604 16 652 15 803 16 762
Merton 349 19 449 20 167 14 61S 22 660
Newham 559 17 604 17 603 17 981 20 1,038
Redbridge 572 17 569 16 649 16 785 17 831
Richmond-upon-Thames 400 16 412 16 425 18 543 14 574
South wark 562 17 563 15 591 13 807 11 726
Sutton 346 16 359 14 371 13 444 11 344
Tower Hamlets 392 10 433 7 466 14 639 13 474
Waltham Forest 433 14 446 14 442 15 632 15 571
Wandsworth 611 15 371 13 370 12 502 11 515
Westminster 706 16 832 18 747 17 760 12 886
London total 21,134 16 22,534 14 22,486 15 22,160 14 21,631
Metropolitan counties
Greater Manchester 9,147 23 9,522 27 7,970 21
Merseyside 6,494 24 6,866 24 4,181 23
South Yorkshire 4,742 16 4,889 17 5,323 18
Tyne and Wear 5,442 26 5,701 24 5,542 19
West Midlands 7,998 17 8,304 18 8,143 17
West Yorkshire 6,499 18 6,770 18 7,136 17
Total metropolitan counties 40,322 20 42,051 21 38,295 19
Shire counties
Avon 2,765 18 2,759 18 2,770 17 2,944 17 3,125
Bedfordshire 990 12 1,047 10 1,043 10 1,204 12 1,273