HC Deb 08 March 1972 vol 832 cc336-9W
115. Mr. Booth

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will publish a list of those boroughs and urban districts from which he is removing responsibilities for road safety after 1st April, 1972, and state in what way their carrying out of these responsibilities has been unsatisfactory.

Mr. Eldon Griffiths

Exemption from paying the county road safety precept has been withdrawn from 135 non-county borough and urban district councils.

These exemptions were withdrawn because the arrangements which the

County Non-county Boroughs Urban District Councils
Berkshire Abingdon
Newbury
Wokingham
Cumberland Whitehaven Keswick
Penrith
Durham Durham Seaham
Blaydon
Barnard Castle
Consett
Bishop Auckland
Shildon
Hetton
Brandon and Byshottles
Stanley
Felling
Washington
Houghton-le-Spring
Ryton
Spennymoor
Whickham
Crook and Willington
Hertfordshire Hertford Baldock
Sawbridgeworth
Potters Bar
Hitchin
Berkhamsted
Harpenden
Rickmansworth
Royston
Tring
Ware
Welwyn Garden City
Chorleywood
Hoddesdon
Kent Tenterden Sittingbourne and Milton
Rochester
Hythe
Chatham
Faversham
Queenborough-in-Sheppey
Lancashire Nelson Carnforth
Heywood Adlington
Colne Pressall
Clitheroe Longridge
Chorley Wardle
Morecambe and Heysham Milnrow
Lancaster Kirkham
Leigh Westhoughton
Fleetwood Chadderton
Middleton Golborne
Redcliffe Leyland
Darwen Ormskirk
Prestwich Newton-le-Willows
Tyldesley
Billinge and Winstanley
Padiham
Tottington
Atherton
Prescot
Crompton
Thornton Cleveleys
Littleborough
Hindley
Whitworth

councils had made or were proposing to make were not as good as those the county council were willing to make.

Following is the list:

County Non-county Boroughs Urban District Councils
Whitefield
Ramsbottom
Poulton-le-Fylde
Ulverston
Lincolnshire (Holland) Boston
Lincolnshire (Kesteven) Grantham Bourne
Stamford Sleaford
Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Cleethorpes Horncastle
Barton-upon-Humber
Skegness
Mablethorpe and Sutton
Alford
Northumberland Blyth
Oxfordshire Chipping Norton Thame
Woodstock Bicester
Somerset Glastonbury Wells
Chard Keynsham
Norton-Radstock
Wellington (Somerset)
Burnham-on-Sea
Portishead
Shepton Mallet
Watchet
Frome
Street
Staffordshire Tamworth Kidsgrove
Stafford Biddulph
Lichfield Leek
Uttoxeter
Stone
West Suffolk Bury St. Edmunds
Sudbury
East Sussex Hove Portslade-by-Sea
Worcestershire Evesham Stourport-on-Severn
Yorkshire (East Riding) Hedon Driffield
Beverley Withernsea
Bridlington Hornsea
Haltemprice
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