HC Deb 25 April 1967 vol 745 cc230-4W
Mr. Clegg

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will set out a table of the amounts of money sanctioned for lending for house mortgages in each local housing authority in Lancashire in 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966; and how much he is prepared to sanction for each authority for that purpose in 1967.

Mr. Mellish

The table below sets out the amounts which the authorities were authorised to borrow for the purpose of lending for house mortgages. They do not necessarily agree with the amount actually advanced each year.

For the financial year 1967–68 lending will, in general, be restricted to the

LOAN SANCTIONS ISSUED ENABLING LOANS TO BE RAISED FOR LENDING FOR HOUSE MORTGAGES
Authority 1963 1964 1965 1966
County Boroughs £ £ £ £
Barrow-in-Furness 120,000 60,000 40,000
Blackburn 200,000 2,090 126,534
Blackpool 300,000 500,000 500,000
Bolton 250,000 600,000 413,000 150,000
Bootle 5,000
Burnley
Bury 100,000 200,000
Liverpool 500,000 500,000 1,425,000 500,000
Manchester 1,000,000 1,000,000 3,450,000 500,000
Oldham 150,000 127,300 50,000
Preston
Rochdale 5,000 100,000 200,000 238,000
St. Helens 150,000 200,000 194,000
Salford 5,000 15,000 500,000
Southport 300,000 600,000 511,000 100,000
Warrington 125,000 10,000 123,000 25,788
Wigan 80,000 330,000 100,000 100,000
Non-county boroughs
Accrington 40,000 40,000 100,000
Ashton-under-Lyne 105,000 110,000 100,000 58,767
Bacup 50,000 91,000 6,181
Chorley 40,000 40,000 50,000 60,000
Clitheroe 20,000 4,200 25,000
Colne
Crosby 50,000 30,000
Darwen 150,000 95,000
Eccles 100,000 117,255 150,000
Farnworth 15,000 20,000 25,000
Fleetwood 300,000 60,000
Haslingden 20,000 11,000 20,000
Heywood 100,000 110,000 100,000 40,000
Lancaster 410,000 10,000 117,000 62,260
Leigh 5,000 55,000 75,000 30,000
Lytham St. Annes
Middleton 28,000 75,000
Morecambe and Heysham 100,000 500,000 260,000 50,000
Mossley 20,000 20,000 60,000 35,375
Nelson 50,000 66,000
Prestwich
Radcliffe 50,000
Rawtenstall 100,000 35,000
Stretford 400,000 290,000 70,000
Swinton and Pendlebury 130,500 20,000
Widnes 225,000 200,000 167,685
Urban districts
Abram 20,000
Adlington 40,000 15,000 25,000
Ashton-in-Makerfield 200,000
Aspull
Atherton 400,000 200,000
Audenshaw 50,000 30,000 20,000 10,000
Barrowford 4,190 4,243
Billinge and Winstanley 50,000
Blackrod
Brierfield
Carnforth
Chadderton 220,000
Church 5,000 15,000
Clayton-le-Moors 20,000 20,000
Crompton 60,000

average of the three years ended 31st March, 1965. Local authorities have been given an initial quota of 90 per cent. of that figure and the remaining 10 per cent. is being held in reserve to meet claims for special treatment.

Authority 1963 1964 1965 1966
Urban districts (continued) £ £ £ £
Dalton-in-Furness 20,000 85,000
Denton.
Droylsden 50,000 50,000 100,000 50,000
Failsworth 110,000 100,000
Formby 50,000
Fulwood
Golbourne 105,000 90,460
Grange 5,000
Great Harwood
Haydock 10,000
Hindley 30,000 30,000 30,000
Horwich 30,000 15,500 20,000
Huyton-with-Roby 150,000
Ince-in-Makerfield 14,484 8,167 6,270
Irlam 5,000
Kearsley 50,000 50,000 100,000
Kirkby 250,000 50,000
Kirkham
Lees
Leyland 100,000 208,000 40,000
Litherland 20,000
Littleborough 10,000 40,000 23,000 16,255
Little Lever 30,000 50,000
Longridge 40,000 70,000
Milnrow 10,000 10,000 20,000
Newton-le-Willows
Ormskirk 50,000 50,000 100,000 30,000
Orrell
Oswaldtwistle
Padiham 5,000 24,000 10,000 2,000
Poulton-le-Fylde
Preesall
Prescot 22,800 50,000
Rainford
Ramsbottom 80,000 74,000 30,000
Rishton
Royton 30,000
Skelmersdale 31,000
Standish-with-Langtree 50,000
Thornton Cleveleys 50,000 15,000 15,000
Tottington 40,000 35,000
Trawden
Turton
Tyldesley
Ulverston 50,000
Upholland 200,000
Urmston 250,000 30,000
Walton-le-Dale 20,000 22,706 4,800
Wardle 5,000
Westhoughton 20,000 20,000 50,000 45,000
Whitefield 2,000
Whitworth 53,600 15,776
Withnell 10,000
Worsley 35,125
Rural districts
Blackburn 30,000
Burnley —. 25,000 100,000
Chorley 50,000 100,000 55,000 60,000
Clitheroe
Fylde
Garstang 10,000 6,000
Lancaster
Lunesdale
North Lonsdale 20,000
Preston. 30,000 13,800
Warrington
West Lancashire
Whiston 221,000 50,000 20,000
Wigan