Improvement Grants

HC Deb 24 June 1969 vol 785 cc231-3W

36. Mr. Woof

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what was the total value of the standard improvement grant, and the discretionary grant,

			Faversham Borough	Queenborough in-Sheppey Borough	Sittingbourne and Milton Urban District	Swale Rural District
			£	£	£	£
1960	…	…	5,175	12,299	8,223	16,413
1961	…	…	7,516	8,861	5,085	22,231
1962	…	…	9,621	6,436	6,597	20,126
1963	…	…	15,895	13,071	7,793	18,114
1964	…	…	8,737	12,442	11,371	12,263
1965	…	…	12,918	14,169	9,069	17,926
1966	…	…	15,169	10,351	7,536	15,509
1967	…	…	14,074	6,525	11,539	12,717
1968	…	…	12,200	4,607	10,126	11,811
			101,305	88,761	77,339	147,110

The figures for Queenborough-in-Sheppey Borough includes those for Queenborough Borough, Sheerness Urban District and Sheppey Rural District prior to 1st April, 1968.

Mr. Carter-Jones

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what was the total value of the standard improvement grant and discretionary grant paid over the past four years to the borough of Swinton and Pendlebury.

Mr. MacColl

During the four years up to the end of 1968 the Council gave a total of £26,382 in grants to private

respectively, over the past four years in Blaydon urban district, Ryton urban district and Whickham urban district, respectively.

Mr. MacColl

During the four years up to the end of 1968 the Blaydon, Ryton and Whickham urban district councils made grams to private owners amounting to totals of £33,200, £29,500 and £11,200 respectively for standard grants to £2,700, £9,900 and £11,000 respectively for discretionary grants.

Mr. Boston

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will set out in the OFFICIAL REPORT the annual sums of money spent on improvement grants in the borough of Faversham, the borough of Queenborough-in-Sheppey or its predecessors, the urban district of Sittingbourne and Milton and the rural district of Swale, respectively, for the financial years 1960–61 to 1968–69.

Mr. MacColl

Details of the total amounts of discretionary and standard grants given to private owners are set out below:—

owners. Of that total the Government's share of three-quarters amounted to some £19,800, payably on loan charges over a period of 20 years.

Mr. Carter-Jones

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what was the total value of the standard improvement grant and discretionary grant paid over the past four years to the borough of Eccles.

Mr. MacColl

During the four years up to the end of 1968 the Council gave a total of £32,903 in grants to private owners. The Government contribution to the Council covers three-quarters of the annual loan charges over a period of twenty years relative to that amount. During the same period improvements to council houses were approved providing for an annual Government contribution for twenty years of £483.