§ Mr. CaplinTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what resources he will make available to authorities that have been or are to be reorganised on 1 April 1995, 1996, 1997 or 1998 for reorganisation costs incurred by them in 1997–98; and if he will make a statement. [14067]
§ Ms ArmstrongOn 18 July I invited authorities that have been or are to be reorganised on or before 1 April 1998 to submit estimates of the amount of expenditure they expect to incur on transitional costs of reorganisation in 1997–98. On the basis, inter alia, of the information provided by the authorities, I have decided the revised maximum amounts that it would be appropriate to allocate towards such costs in 1997–98. In the initial round, priority was given to authorities that were reorganised on 1 April 1997 and will be reorganising on 1 April 1998; I have adopted the same priorities for the mid-year stage of the scheme. The majority of the authorities to be reorganised in 1998 requested at the beginning of the scheme that allocations in respect of redundancy be deferred until this round. Accordingly, the allocations listed below for authorities reorganising in 1998 are intended to cover redundancy costs.
The amounts are as follows:
875W
Maximum amounts: £000s rounded Authority 1997–98 1996 reorganisations Hartlepool borough council 1,400 Redcar and Cleveland council 1,300 Middlesbrough borough council 1,500 Stockton on Tees borough council 1,300 Bristol city council 1,100 Bath and North East Somerset council 1,700 North Somerset council 1,000 South Gloucestershire council 1,200 Kingston upon Hull council 1,200 East Riding Yorkshire council 2,500 North Lincolnshire council 1,200 North East Lincolnshire council 1,900 York city council 800 Total 18,100 1997 Reorganisations Bedfordshire county council 1,000 Luton borough council 3,500 Milton Keynes borough council 3,000 Derbyshire county council 650 Derby city council 2,950 Bournemouth borough council 2,900 Poole borough council 3,000
Maximum amounts: £000s rounded Authority 1997–98 Durham county council 350 Darlington borough council 2,000 East Sussex county council 1,800 Brighton and Hove council 4,000 Hampshire county council 1,600 Portsmouth city council 2,600 Southampton city council 3,200 Leicestershire county council 1,100 Leicester city council 3,100 Rutland council 1,160 Staffordshire county council 720 Stoke on Trent city council 2,600 Wiltshire county council 400 Swindon borough council 2,000 Total 43,630 1998 Reorganisations Berkshire county council 4,100 Bracknell forest borough council 2,100 Newbury district council 2,400 Reading borough council 3,000 Slough borough council 2,600 Royal borough of Windsor and Maidenhead 2,200 Wokingham district council 3,500 Hereford and Worcester county council 2,300 Hereford city council 250 Leominster district council 350 Malvern Hills district council 600 South Herefordshire district council 200 County of Herefordshire district council (shadow) 13,000 Worcestershire county council (shadow) 12,300 Malvern Hills district council (shadow) 1385 Devon county council 3,000 Plymouth city council 2,900 Torbay borough council 3,400 Essex county council 2,800 Southend on sea borough council 2,950 Thurrock borough council 2,850 Nottinghamshire county council 2,400 Nottingham city council 3,100 Cheshire county council 2,500 Halton borough council 2,500 Warrington borough council 3,300 Shropshire county council 2,100 The Wrekin district council 3,000 Kent county council 3,200 Gillingham borough council 400 Rochester city council 600 Medway Towns council (shadow) 13,000 Cambridgeshire county council 1,400 Peterborough city council 3,400 Lancashire county council 2,800 Blackburn with Darwen borough council 3,200 Blackpool borough council 3,000 Total 87,085 Combined total allocations 148,815 1 Supplementary credit approval to be issued. The figure includes SCA issued in May 1997. Isle of Wight council, Buckinghamshire and Dorset county councils did not submit bids.