HC Deb 24 January 1996 vol 270 cc238-40W
Mr. Jim Cunningham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what percentage of local authorities run their housing rent accounts on a surplus; and if he will list those authorities. [10506]

Mr. Clappison

[holding answer 23 January 1996]Based on returns submitted to the Department, local authorities' housing revenue account opening balances for 1994–95 totalled £745 million. Their end-year balances totalled £756 million; 46 per cent. of authorities increased their balances during the year. Those authorities are as follows:

  • Alnwick
  • Arun
  • Aylesbury
  • Barking and Dagenham
  • Barnet
    • 239
  • Basildon
  • Bath
  • Bedford
  • Berwick upon Tweed
  • Bexley
  • Blaby
  • Boston
  • Bournemouth
  • Bradford
  • Braintree
  • Bridgnorth
  • Brighton
  • Broxbourne
  • Burnley
  • Bury
  • Calderdale
  • Cannock Chase
  • Canterbury
  • Caradon
  • Carrick
  • Castle Morpeth
  • Castle Point
  • Chelmsford
  • Kensington and Chelsea
  • Chester
  • Chesterfield
  • Chester le Street
  • Colchester
  • Corby
  • Craven
  • Crewe and Nantwich
  • Dacorum
  • Derbyshire Dales
  • Dudley
  • Ealing
  • East Hertfordshire
  • East Lindsey
  • East Staffordshire
  • East Yorkshire
  • Eden
  • Elmbridge
  • Enfield
  • Epping Forest
  • Erewash
  • Forest Heath
  • Forest of Dean
  • Fylde
  • Glanford
  • Great Yarmouth
  • Greenwich
  • Harborough
  • Haringey
  • Harlow
  • Harrogate
  • Harrow
  • Hartlepool
  • Hastings
  • Havering
  • Hillingdon
  • Hinckley and Bosworth
  • Holderness
  • Horsham
  • Hounslow
  • Huntingdonshire
  • Isles of Scilly
  • Kettering
  • Kings Lynn and West Norfolk
  • Kingswood
  • Kirklees
  • Lambeth
  • Lancaster
  • Leeds
  • Leicester
  • Lewes
  • Luton
  • Macclesfield
    • 240
  • Maidstone
  • Manchester
  • Melton
  • Mid Suffolk
  • Middlesbrough
  • Milton Keynes
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Newham
  • North Norfolk
  • North Wiltshire
  • Nuneaton
  • Oadby and Wigston
  • Oxford
  • Penwith
  • Plymouth
  • Redditch
  • Reigate and Banstead
  • Richmond upon Thames
  • Richmondshire
  • Rochdale
  • Rochford
  • Rossendale
  • Rother
  • Rugby
  • Runnymede
  • Rushcliffe
  • Rutland
  • South Derbyshire
  • Salford
  • Salisbury
  • Sandwell
  • Scarborough
  • Scunthorpe
  • Slough
  • Solihull
  • South Cambridgeshire
  • South Herefordshire
  • South Holland
  • South Kesteven
  • South Lakeland
  • South Norfolk
  • South Northamptonshire
  • Southend-on-Sea
  • Southwark
  • Spelthorne
  • St. Albans
  • St. Edmundsbury
  • Tameside
  • Tandridge
  • Teesdale
  • Teignbridge
  • Test Valley
  • Tewkesbury
  • Thanet
  • Tunbridge Wells
  • Tynedale
  • Uttlesford
  • Wakefield
  • Walsall
  • Waltham Forest
  • Wandsworth
  • Wansbeck
  • Watford
  • Waveney
  • Wealden
  • West Oxford
  • West Wiltshire
  • Westminster
  • Wigan
  • Winchester
  • Windsor and Maidenhead
  • Worcester
  • Worthing