§ Mr. SykesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what finances he has made available to authorities that have been or are to be reorganised on 1 April 1995–96, and 1997 for reoganisation costs incurred by them in 1995–96; and if he will make a statement. [40955]
§ Mr. CurryOn 26 April I invited authorities that have been or are to be reorganised on or before 1 April 1997 to submit outturn figures of the amount of expenditure they incurred on transitional costs of reorganisation in 1995–96. On the basis, inter alia, of the information provided by the authorities, I have decided the amounts of supplementary credit approvals to allocate towards such costs in 1995–96. I have given priority to authorities that were reorganised on or before 1 April 1996.
The amounts are as follows:
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SCAs: £000 rounded Authority 1995–96 Isle of Wight Isle of Wight Council 1,536
SCAs: £000 rounded Authority 1995–96 Cleveland Cleveland County Council 3,169 Hartlepool Borough Council 3,200 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council 2,891 Middlesborough Borough Council 2,160 Stockton on Tees Borough Council 2,947 Avon Avon County Council 2,910 Bristol City Council 2,719 North Somerset District Council 3,197 Bath and North East Somerset Council 1,769 Bath City Council 299 Wansdyke District Council 715 South Gloucestershire Council 1,790 Kingswood Borough Council 438 Northavon District Council 484 Humberside Humberside County Council 2,900 Hull City Council 3,080 East Riding of Yorkshire Council 1,200 Beverley Borough Council 800 Boothferry Borough Council 90 East Yorkshire Borough Council 864 Holdemess Borough Council 500 North Lincolnshire Council 1,898 Glanford Borough Council 468 Scunthorpe Borough Council 626 North East Lincolnshire DC 1,634 Cleethorpes Borough Council 394 Great Grimsby 922 North Yorkshire North Yorkshire County Council 1,400 Ryedale District Council — Selby District Council 685 York District Council 2,996 York City Council 550 Total 51,231 In addition, £200,000 has been issued, and distributed by the Home Office, for the reorganisation costs of combined fire authorities. 2
On 29 November 1995 I announced that I had considered carefully the bids submitted by authorities that are to be reorganised in 1997, but that, in my view, none of the bids established a sufficiently strong case to justify an allocation of SCA for 1995–96, Official Report, column 734. I have taken the same view following consideration of outturn bids submitted by these authorities. I have, however, issued capitalisation directions for the net eligible revenue expenditure incurred.