HC Deb 03 December 1969 vol 792 cc309-12W
Mr. Alexander W. Lyon

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide figures of total expenditure on cash grants by all English and Welsh children's departments for each year under Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1963, and detailed information for each children's authority for the most recent year available.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

The financial assistance provided by local authorities in England and Wales during the 12 months ending 31st March under Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1963, totalled:

£
1965–66 88,000
1966–67 148,500
1967–68 198,000
1968–69 (Returns incomplete)

These sums include direct cash grants, loans and payments of fares, arrears of rent, household necessities and fuel supplies The amounts paid out in 1967–68 by individual authorities (grouped by Home Office regions) were:

£
Derbyshire 3,292
Herefordshire 812
Leicestershire 1,575
Lincs (Holland) 181
Lincs (Kesteven) 786
Lincs (Lindsey) 743
Northamptonshire 578
Nottinghamshire 1,407
Rutland 31
Hunts & Peterborough 359
Salop 216
Staffordshire 1,183
Warwickshire 1,205
Worcestershire 80
Birmingham 2,357
Burton-on-Trent 6
Coventry 5,250
Derby 448
Dudley 617
Grimsby 310
Leicester
Lincoln 253
Northampton 64
Nottingham 325
Solihull 12
Stoke-on-Trent 391
Walsall 75
Warley 227
West Bromwich 803
Wolverhampton 287
Worcester 588
Bedfordshire 93
Berkshire 678
Buckinghamshire 4,224
Cambs & Isle of Ely 340
Dorset 1,128
Essex 1,517
Hampshire 2,349
Hertfordshire 5,384
Isle of Wight 869
Norfolk 850
Oxfordshire 2,222
Suffolk (East) 648
Suffolk (West) 354
Bournemouth 782
Great Yarmouth

£
Ipswich 383
Norwich 1,050
Oxford 2,302
Portsmouth 600
Reading 1,024
Southampton 1,549
Southend
Luton 580
Kent 3,533
Surrey 2,446
Sussex (East)
Sussex (West) 1,522
Brighton 920
Canterbury 31
Eastbourne 128
Hastings 196
Barnet 4,148
Brent 1,501
Ealing
Enfield 858
Haringey 3,333
Harrow 37
Hillingdon 321
Hounslow 732
Barking 630
Bexley 210
Bromley 2,940
Camden 4,738
Croydon 649
Greenwich 3,000
Hackney 3,419
Hammersmith 4,044
Havering 738
Islington 2,598
Kensington & Chelsea 2,416
Kingston upon Thames 381
Lambeth 3,581
Lewisham 8,199
Merton 828
Newham 1,033
Redbridge 500
Richmond-on-Thames 202
Southwark 5,338
Sutton 1,691
Tower Hamlets 5,732
Waltham Forest 381
Wandsworth 4,036
City of Westminster 1,233
Cumberland 576
Durham 541
Northumberland 838
Westmorland 1,074
Yorkshire (E.R.) 127
Yorkshire (N.R.) 1,362
Yorkshire (W.R.) 1,694
Barnsley 349
Bradford 697
Carlisle 887
Darlington 356
Dewsbury 72
Doncaster 91
Gateshead 337
Halifax 381
Huddersfield 154
Kingston Hull 163
Leeds 210
Middlesbrough
Newcastle 1,037
Rotherham 401
Sheffield 3,797
South Shields 289

Sunderland 123
Tynemouth 638
Wakefield 69
West Hartlepool 62
York 35
Cheshire 6,414
Lancashire 7,951
Barrow 46
Birkenhead 703
Blackburn
Blackpool 541
Bolton 395
Bootle 141
Burnley 120
Bury 44
Chester
Liverpool 3,654
Manchester 2,639
Oldham 38
Preston 535
Rochdale 415
St. Helens 24
Salford 138
Southport 153
Stockport 270
Wallasey 267
Warrington 322
Wigan 358
Anglesey 84
Brecon 251
Caernarvonshire 306
Cardiganshire 177
Carmarthen 232
Cornwall 25
Denbighshire 280
Devonshire 2,386
Flintshire 320
Glamorgan 5,106
Gloucestershire 771
Merionethshire
Monmouthshire
Montgomeryshire 64
Pembrokeshire 203
Radnorshire 98
Somerset 4,231
Wiltshire 2,011
Bath 219
Bristol 3,255
Cardiff 2,381
Exeter 518
Gloucester 464
Merthyr Tydfil
Newport 168
Plymouth 889
Swansea 427