§ Mr. Tony BanksTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a table of expenditure on the regional offices of Government Ministries in 1989–90, broken down by Ministry and separating out the cost of running the regional office from the funding programmes it discharges and showing the expenditure on, and of, each regional office separately.
§ Mr. Heseltine[holding answer 22 January 1991]: The estimated costs of running each regional office of the
Table 2 Department of the Environment/spending in England by standard economic planning regions in 1989–90 (£M) Standard economic planning regions Rate support grant Other service basic capital allocations to LAs Community charge preparation allocations to LAs Urban development corporations Urban Programme Housing subsidy paid to local authorities Housing investment Programme allocation to authorities South east 2,849 60.9 51.5 255.8 50.7 516.7 452.2 South West 785 17.6 13.1 5.0 2.5 2.9 62.3 East Anglia 285 8.4 5.7 — — 0.3 26.4 West Midlands 1,053 17.1 13.9 3.8 41.0 8.8 127.8 East Midlands 762 12.9 11.1 — 11.4 10.0 60.7 North West 1,695 20.4 17.2 47.3 73.5 29.7 186.6 Yorkshire and Humberside 1,306 19.5 13.3 18 3 27.2 -0.2 106.3 Northern Region 843 11.2 8.6 17.8 41.7 16.2 72.5 The expenditure on urban programme includes previously with DES, DH and DTp. The totals also include LAs contribution (25 per cent.).