§
Mr. Lennox-Boyd,
pursuant to his written reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th March; Vol. 525, col. 184] supplied the following statement:
The desired information so far as it is available is given below. Estimates of the grants to be made for major improvements and new construction to each authority cannot be given so early in the financial year. The figures for such grants relating to 1953–54 are for the total cost of the schemes, which may be spread over several years.
92W
| MAINTENANCE AND MINOR IMPROVEMENT |
|
|
1954–55 |
|
1953–54 |
Estimated |
| COUNTIES (ENGLAND) |
£ |
£ |
| Bedfordshire |
163,500 |
210,000 |
| Berkshire |
203,130 |
245,350 |
| Buckinghamshire |
302,137 |
343,450 |
| Cambridgeshire |
137,000 |
158,000 |
| Cheshire |
538,888 |
499,300 |
| Cornwall |
363,500 |
387,000 |
| Cumberland |
171,702 |
199,200 |
| Derbyshire |
388,606 |
430,000 |
| Devonshire |
522,744 |
555,600 |
| Dorsetshire |
244,000 |
267,000 |
| Durham |
483,653 |
515,000 |
| Essex |
558,703 |
650,000 |
| Gloucestershire |
371,421 |
376,220 |
| Herefordshire |
197,007 |
204,000 |
| Hertfordshire |
258,839 |
320,000 |
| Huntingdonshire |
118,330 |
124,000 |
| Isle of Ely |
105,257 |
114,000 |
| Isle of Wight |
90,200 |
106,800 |
| Kent |
543,003 |
605,311 |
| Lancashire |
884,369 |
1,055,700 |
| Leicestershire |
270,586 |
300,000 |
| Lincolnshire (Holland) |
91,500 |
91,500 |
| Lincolnshire (Kesteven) |
150,000 |
150,000 |
| Lincolnshire (Lindsey) |
334,755 |
299,000 |
| Middlesex |
579,983 |
670,000 |
| Monmouthshire |
178,500 |
206,000 |
| Norfolk |
403,690 |
447,000 |
| Northamptonshire |
219,554 |
248,000 |
| Northumberland |
285,928 |
310,000 |
| Nottinghamshire |
275,000 |
300,000 |
| Oxfordshire |
214,805 |
241,000 |
| Peterborough, Soke of |
24,000 |
26,500 |
| Rutlandshire |
35,500 |
40,000 |
| Shropshire |
321,745 |
351,000 |
| Somersetshire |
488,211 |
533,000 |
| Southampton |
473,284 |
571,000 |
| Staffordshire |
398,039 |
525,000 |
| Suffolk (East) |
169,739 |
178,500 |
| Suffolk (West) |
160,338 |
175,000 |
| Surrey |
536,500 |
630,000 |
| Sussex (East) |
284,000 |
320,000 |
| Sussex (West) |
224,000 |
266,200 |
| Warwickshire |
300,263 |
360,000 |
| Westmorland |
88,000 |
84,691 |
| Wiltshire |
370,156 |
388,419 |
| Worcestershire |
351,058 |
375,000 |
| Yorkshire (East Riding) |
183,945 |
205,000 |
| Yorkshire (North Riding) |
270,712 |
290,000 |
| Yorkshire (West Riding) |
893,338 |
940,000 |
| COUNTIES (WALES) |
| Anglesey |
50,325 |
62,500 |
| Breconshire |
64,606 |
70,000 |
| Caernarvonshire |
115,500 |
130,000 |
| Cardiganshire |
95,300 |
111,000 |
| Carmarthenshire |
183,670 |
212,500 |
| Denbighshire |
126,000 |
139,000 |
| Flintshire |
120,299 |
137,000 |
| Glamorganshire |
334,565 |
386,000 |
| Merionethshire |
68,999 |
74,000 |
| Montgomeryshire |
100,500 |
117,000 |
| Pembrokeshire |
99,121 |
113,000 |
| Radnorshire |
59,488 |
72,500 |
| COUNTIES (SCOTLAND) |
| Aberdeen |
171,928 |
177,750 |
| Angus |
97,800 |
94,390 |
| Argyll |
129,458 |
115,300 |
| Ayr |
137,000 |
139,700 |
| Banff |
51,250 |
66,500 |
93W
| 1954–55 |
|
1953–54 |
Estimated |
|
£ |
£ |
| Berwick |
… |
39,000 |
39,000 |
| Bute |
… |
28,000 |
28,200 |
| Caithness |
… |
23,000 |
26,399 |
| Clackmannan |
… |
15,400 |
18,484 |
| Dumbarton |
… |
65,405 |
76,000 |
| Dumfries |
… |
84,000 |
84,025 |
| East Lothian |
… |
40,816 |
41,100 |
| Fife |
… |
92,600 |
105,500 |
| Inverness |
… |
153,355 |
159,000 |
| Kincardine |
… |
39,998 |
43,175 |
| Kirkcudbright |
… |
58,824 |
64,550 |
| Lanark |
… |
150,000 |
167,000 |
| Midlothian |
… |
63,500 |
70,900 |
| Moray and Nairn |
… |
52,180 |
56,000 |
| Orkney |
… |
28,250 |
27,030 |
| Peebles |
… |
23,900 |
25,500 |
| Perth and Kinross |
… |
163,000 |
174,305 |
| Renfrew |
… |
59,000 |
64,000 |
| Ross and Cromarty |
… |
100,500 |
116,696 |
| Roxburgh |
… |
41,000 |
47,000 |
| Selkirk |
… |
29,200 |
20,902 |
| Stirling |
… |
70,200 |
79,400 |
| Sutherland |
… |
85,562 |
80,300 |
| West Lothian |
… |
58,000 |
70,800 |
| Wigtown |
… |
47,500 |
51,600 |
| Zetland |
… |
59,463 |
65,000 |
| IMPROVEMENTS, NEW CONSTRUCTION, ETC. |
| 1953–54 |
| COUNTIES (ENGLAND) |
£ |
| Bedfordshire |
… |
… |
13,801 |
| Berkshire |
… |
… |
8,760 |
| Buckinghamshire |
… |
… |
23,597 |
| Cambridgeshire |
… |
… |
14,224 |
| Cheshire |
… |
… |
9,485 |
| Cornwall |
… |
… |
62,925 |
| Cumberland |
… |
… |
5,405 |
| Derbyshire |
… |
… |
30,461 |
| Devonshire |
… |
… |
121,131 |
| Dorsetshire |
… |
… |
12,263 |
| Durham |
… |
… |
18,573 |
| Essex |
… |
… |
79,823 |
| Gloucestershire |
… |
… |
27,699 |
| Herefordshire |
… |
… |
5,437 |
| Hertfordshire |
… |
… |
27,067 |
| Huntingdonshire |
… |
… |
7,451 |
| Isle of Ely |
… |
… |
2,045 |
| Isle of Wight |
… |
… |
5,954 |
| Kent |
… |
… |
43,452 |
| Lancashire |
… |
… |
33,427 |
| Leicestershire |
… |
… |
7,533 |
| Lincolnshire (Holland) |
… |
… |
4,518 |
| Lincolnshire (Kesteven) |
… |
… |
441 |
| Lincolnshire (Lindsey) |
… |
… |
37,317 |
| Middlesex |
… |
… |
36,393 |
| Monmouthshire |
… |
… |
15,290 |
| Norfolk |
… |
… |
26,819 |
| Northamptonshire |
… |
… |
22,160 |
| Northumberland |
… |
… |
12,149 |
| Nottinghamshire |
… |
… |
12,579 |
| Oxfordshire |
… |
… |
27,111 |
| Peterborough, Soke of |
… |
… |
1,087 |
| Rutland |
… |
… |
— |
| Shropshire |
… |
… |
4,556 |
| Somersetshire |
… |
… |
22,424 |
| Southampton |
… |
… |
94,696 |
| Staffordshire |
… |
… |
61,265 |
| Suffolk (East) |
… |
… |
4,003 |
| Suffolk (West) |
… |
… |
8,530 |
| Surrey |
… |
… |
14,253 |
| Sussex (East) |
… |
… |
8,521 |
94W
| 1953–54 |
|
£ |
| Sussex (West) |
… |
16,335 |
| Warwickshire |
… |
8,321 |
| Westmorland |
… |
896 |
| Wiltshire |
… |
41,139 |
| Worcestershire |
… |
12,073 |
| Yorkshire (East Riding) |
… |
2,965 |
| Yorkshire (North Riding) |
… |
28,080 |
| Yorkshire (West Riding) |
… |
16,889 |
| COUNTIES (WALES) |
| Anglesey |
… |
8,772 |
| Breconshire |
… |
2,817 |
| Caernarvonshire |
… |
6,796 |
| Cardiganshire |
… |
1,500 |
| Carmarthenshire |
… |
32,670 |
| Denbighshire |
… |
9,465 |
| Flintshire |
… |
10,081 |
| Glamorganshire |
… |
28,005 |
| Merionethshire |
… |
8,833 |
| Montgomeryshire |
… |
3,585 |
| Pembrokeshire |
… |
4,359 |
| Radnorshire |
… |
1,162 |
| COUNTIES (SCTOLAND) |
| Aberdeen |
… |
407 |
| Angus |
… |
— |
| Argyll |
… |
211,831 |
| Ayr |
… |
3,646 |
| Banff |
… |
55 |
| Berwick |
… |
— |
| Bute |
… |
— |
| Caithness |
… |
— |
| Clackmannan |
… |
760 |
| Dumbarton |
… |
195 |
| Dumfries |
… |
4,350 |
| East Lothian |
… |
16,410 |
| Fife |
… |
19,716 |
| Inverness |
… |
68,125 |
| Kincardine |
… |
— |
| Kirkcudbright |
… |
3,996 |
| Lanark |
… |
144,662 |
| Midlothian |
… |
38,373 |
| Moray and Nairn |
… |
— |
| Orkney |
… |
— |
| Peebles |
… |
17,133 |
| Perth and Kinross |
… |
37,226 |
| Renfrew |
… |
3,141 |
| Ross and Cromarty |
… |
— |
| Roxburgh |
… |
32 |
| Selkirk |
… |
— |
| Stirling |
… |
9,000 |
| Sutherland |
… |
165,540 |
| West Lothian |
… |
— |
| Wigtown |
… |
— |
| Zetland |
… |
64 |
| COUNTY BOROUGHS (ENGLAND) |
| Barnsley |
… |
— |
| Barrow-in-Furness |
… |
— |
| Bath |
… |
3,000 |
| Birkenhead |
… |
517 |
| Birmingham |
… |
184,036 |
| Blackburn |
… |
8,176 |
| Blackpool |
… |
— |
| Bolton |
… |
1,554 |
| Bootle |
… |
— |
| Bournemouth |
… |
— |
| Bradford |
… |
— |
| Brighton |
… |
— |
| Bristol |
… |
52,633 |
| Burnley |
… |
— |
| Burton-on-Trent |
… |
— |
| Bury |
… |
— |
| Canterbury |
… |
— |
95W
| 1953–54 |
|
£ |
| Carlisle |
… |
… |
— |
| Chester |
… |
… |
— |
| Coventry |
… |
… |
15,480 |
| Croydon |
… |
… |
1,311 |
| Darlington |
… |
… |
623 |
| Derby |
… |
… |
— |
| Dewsbury |
… |
… |
— |
| Doncaster |
… |
… |
2,037 |
| Dudley |
… |
… |
— |
| Eastbourne |
… |
… |
6,593 |
| East Ham |
… |
… |
32 |
| Exeter |
… |
… |
— |
| Gateshead |
… |
… |
89 |
| Gloucester |
… |
… |
4,203 |
| Great Yarmouth |
… |
… |
8,583 |
| Grimsby |
… |
… |
158 |
| Halifax |
… |
… |
11,742 |
| Hastings |
… |
… |
— |
| Huddersfield |
… |
… |
— |
| Ipswich |
… |
… |
1,040 |
| Kingston-upon-Hull |
… |
… |
— |
| Leeds |
… |
… |
1,875 |
| Leicester |
… |
… |
— |
| Lincoln |
… |
… |
2,335 |
| Liverpool |
… |
… |
1,389 |
| Manchester |
… |
… |
1,484 |
| Middlesbrough |
… |
… |
943 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
… |
… |
— |
| Newport (Mon.) |
… |
… |
— |
| Northampton |
… |
… |
3,061 |
| Norwich |
… |
… |
5,106 |
| Nottingham |
… |
… |
6 |
| Oldham |
… |
… |
11 |
| Oxford |
… |
… |
7,255 |
| Plymouth |
… |
… |
26,695 |
| Portsmouth |
… |
… |
21,287 |
| Preston |
… |
… |
2,149 |
| Reading |
… |
… |
3,923 |
| Rochdale |
… |
… |
— |
| Rotherham |
… |
… |
— |
| St. Helens |
… |
… |
383 |
| Salford |
… |
… |
— |
| Sheffield |
… |
… |
2,921 |
| Smethwick |
… |
… |
— |
| Southampton |
… |
… |
6,421 |
| Southend-on-Sea |
… |
… |
896 |
| Southport |
… |
… |
10 |
| South Shields |
… |
… |
10,812 |
| Stockport |
… |
… |
— |
| Stoke-on-Trent |
… |
… |
4,850 |
| Sunderland |
… |
… |
26,686 |
| Tynemouth |
… |
… |
574 |
| Wakefield |
… |
… |
2,774 |
| Wallasey |
… |
… |
2,179 |
| Walsall |
… |
… |
882 |
| Warrington |
… |
… |
38,462 |
| West Bromwich |
… |
… |
— |
| West Ham |
… |
… |
791 |
| West Hartlepool |
… |
… |
3,762 |
| Wigan |
… |
… |
— |
| Wolverhampton |
… |
… |
1,502 |
| Worcester |
… |
… |
63 |
| York |
… |
… |
34,023 |
| LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL |
… |
… |
29,525 |
| CITY OF LONDON |
… |
… |
21,280 |
| METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS |
| Battersea |
… |
… |
— |
| Bermondsey |
… |
… |
— |
| Bethnal Green |
… |
… |
202 |
| Camberwell |
… |
… |
5,608 |
| Chelsea |
… |
… |
— |
| Deptford |
… |
… |
— |
| Finsbury |
… |
… |
— |
96W
| 1953–54 |
|
£ |
| Fulham |
… |
— |
| Greenwich |
… |
— |
| Hackney |
… |
— |
| Hammersmith |
… |
— |
| Hampstead |
… |
— |
| Holborn |
… |
— |
| Islington |
… |
1,374 |
| Kensington |
… |
— |
| Lambeth |
… |
157 |
| Lewisham |
… |
157 |
| Paddington |
… |
1,154 |
| Poplar |
… |
— |
| St. Marylebone |
… |
— |
| St. Pancras |
… |
— |
| Shoreditch |
… |
— |
| Southwark |
… |
150 |
| Stepney |
… |
— |
| Stoke Newington |
… |
— |
| Wandsworth |
… |
2,393 |
| Westminster |
… |
16,622 |
| Woolwich |
… |
2,286 |
| COUNTY BOROUGHS (WALES) |
| Cardiff |
… |
2,114 |
| Merthyr Tydfil |
… |
487 |
| Swansea (Morriston By-pass) |
… |
*611,000 |
| LARGE BURGHS (SCOTLAND) |
| Aberdeen |
… |
— |
| Airdrie |
… |
— |
| Arbroath |
… |
— |
| Ayr |
… |
— |
| Clydebank |
… |
— |
| Coatbridge |
… |
186 |
| Dumbarton |
… |
— |
| Dumfries |
… |
— |
| Dundee |
… |
— |
| Dunfermline |
… |
1,980 |
| Edinburgh |
… |
1,384 |
| Falkirk |
… |
— |
| Glasgow |
… |
1,665 |
| Greenock |
… |
2,250 |
| Hamilton |
… |
2,600 |
| Inverness |
… |
3,338 |
| Kilmarnock |
… |
— |
| Kirkcaldy |
… |
720 |
| Motherwell and Wishaw |
… |
— |
| Paisley |
… |
— |
| Perth |
… |
747 |
| Port Glasgow |
… |
— |
| Rutherglen |
… |
— |
| Stirling |
… |
— |
| Runcorn-Widness Joint Committee |
*1,125,000 |
| Dartford-Purfleet Tunnel: Cost of maintaining suspended works, etc. |
9,750 |
| *Formal statements of grant have not yet been issued in these cases, but promises of grant, involving the commitment of funds, have been given. |