HC Deb 23 February 1994 vol 238 cc242-3W
Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish for each district council and county council and in total for Wales as a whole in constant prices(a) the estimated actual spending for 1993–94, (b) the standard spending assessments for 1994–95, (c) the amounts by which (b) exceeds or falls short of (a) and (d) the percentage by which (b) exceeds or falls short of (a); and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Gwilym Jones

Information on 1993–94 revenue expenditure budgets and 1994–95 standard spending assessments is given in the table. Outturn expenditure information for 1993–94 is not yet available. Budgeted expenditure includes spending financed through the use of reserves and spending above SSAs within capping limits and is not directly comparable with SSAs. The 1993–94 budgets have been inflated by 4 per cent.—the 1994–95 GDP deflator. This does not necessarily reflect the changes in the costs of local authority services between the two years.

Local authority estimates of revenue expenditure for 1993–94 and 1994–95 SSAs
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Adjusted 1993–94 budgeted net revenue expenditure 1994–95 SSAs Increase between 1993–94 budgets and 1994–95 SSAs
1£000 £000 £000 Per cent.
Alyn and Deeside 10,650 10,125 -524 -5
Colwyn 8,215 8,253 38 0
Delyn 11,901 9,262 -2,639 -22
Glyndwr 6,805 5,501 -1,304 -19
Rhuddlan 9,147 8,717 -430 -5
Wrexham Maelor 17,124 16,372 -751 -4
Carmarthen 9,481 7,762 -1,718 -18
Ceredigion 10,253 9,979 -274 -3
Dinefwr 5,920 5,866 -53 -1
Llanelli 14,723 12,868 -1,855 -13
Preseli Pembrokeshire 11,370 11,273 -97 -1
South Pembrokeshire 7,638 7,740 102 1
Blaenau Gwent 16,998 15,185 -1,813 -11
Islwyn 12,431 11,534 -897 -7
Monmouth 10,225 9,765 -460 -5
Newport 22,733 22,472 -261 -1
Torfaen 14,363 13,702 -661 -5
Aberconwy 9,246 8,740 -506 -5
Arfon 10,576 9,826 -750 -7
Dwyfor 7,216 5,996 -1,220 -17
Meirionnydd 6,420 6,068 -352 -5
Ynys Mon 13,097 11,248 -1,849 -14
Cynon Valley 13,743 13,374 -369 -3
Merthyr Tydfil 12,465 12,226 -239 -2
Ogwr 21,427 20,598 -829 -4
Rhondda 17,706 17,746 40 0
Rhymney Valley 16,465 15,882 -584 -4
Taff Ely 17,559 14,644 -2,915 -17
Brecknock 6,626 6,257 -369 -6
Montgomeryshire 7,403 7,132 -270 -4
Radnorshire 3,413 3,283 -131 -4
Cardiff 48,690 45,765 -2,924 -6
Vale of Glamorgan 16,620 15,257 -1,363 -8
Port Talbot 9,483 8,896 -586 -6
Lliw Valley 8,984 8,827 -156 -2
Neath 13,046 10,148 -2,898 -22
Swansea 35,326 32,781 -2,544 -7
Clwyd 287,086 280,306 -6,780 -2
Dyfed 264,490 253,355 -11,135 -4
Gwent 314,900 306,932 -7,968 -3
Gwynedd 173,533 169,002 -4,531 -3
Mid Glamorgan 402,047 388,857 -13,190 -3
Powys 95,438 93,656 -1,782 -2
South Glamorgan 279,846 280,920 1,074 0
West Glamorgan 266,549 255,622 -10,927 -4
Total Districts 495,485 461,071 -34,414 -7
Total Counties 2,083,889 2,028,650 -55,239 -3
Total Wales 2,579,374 2,489,721 -89,653 -3
1 Net revenue expenditure budgets as reported by local authorities, inflated by the 1994–95 GDP deflator. Includes £19.2 million—at 1994–95 prices—of expenditure funded through the use of reserves and £69.3 million of spending over SSAs within capping limits.