HC Deb 15 June 1973 vol 857 cc392-5W
Mr. Adam Butler

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list by totals and by regions or towns the amounts of additional financial assistance given to centres of high immigrant concentration to assist with their special problems of housing, education and other social matters, for the years 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972.

Mr. Lane

In the years 1969–70 to 1972–73 inclusive Exchequer grant at 75 per cent., totalling some £11.5 million, has been paid under the urban programme to local authorities in England with areas of special social need. Many but not all of such areas have large concentrations of Commonwealth immigrants.

In the same period Exchequer grants totalling over £20 million have been paid exclusively to local authorities with substantial numbers of Commonwealth immigrants in their areas to meet 75 per cent. of the cost of employing special staff under Section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966. Payments to individual authorities under Section 11 were as follows:

1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73
£ £ £ £
County Councils
Kent … … 12,821 13,185 20,942 18,983
Lancashire … … — 48,432 57,050 57,833
Leicestershire … … 9,055 7,806 11,828 20,510
Salop … … — — 3,120 2,052
Warwickshire … … 22,144 26,377 37,261 29,375
West Riding … … 27,902 22,015 15,322 27,389
County Borough Councils
Birmingham … … 444,654 365,618 496,723 588,626
Blackburn … … 30,101 15,209 38,082 75,179
Bolton … … 22,038 30,373 31,720 50,789
Bradford … … 86,017 183,592 205,902 273,087
Bristol … … 39,142 46,427 72,438 102,812
Coventry … … 35,840 57,338 60,306 72,305
Derby … … 36,855 44,851 94,618 144,622
Dewsbury … … 15,937 23,005 21,317 32,276
Dudley … … 21,664 37,339 33,921 46,929
Gloucester … … 7,620 9,635 15,883 7,322
Halifax … … — — 15,210 18,809
Huddersfield … … 68,639 83,360 104,457 132,041
Ipswich … … 4,536 6,441 5,563 5,792
Leeds … … 30,329 46,399 44,238 53,206
Leicester … … 63,456 156,597 152,580 160,233
Luton … … 23,635 22,307 27,552 45,860
Manchester … … 62,567 82,541 80,977 128,613
Northampton … … 2,653 2,849 3,478 5,787
Nottingham … … 74,471 134,797 120,413 159,270
Oldham … … 12,408 11,610 17,348 9,418
Oxford … … 19,526 20,867 21,649 21,210
Preston … … 20,058 28,027 26,105 40,275
Reading … … 13,044 19,223 23,382 32,924
Rochdale … … 28,095 34,844 47,097 44,953
Sheffield … … 73,417 51,879 76,896 41,193
Southampton … … — 33,428 29,961 26,768
Walsall … … 43,878 32,679 110,103 43,857
Warley … … 31,377 31,144 41,427 121,019
West Bromwich … … 48,392 36,742 41,767 67,357
Wolverhampton … … 92,929 141,298 191,891 292,576
London Borough Councils
Barnet … … 29,950 30,087 38,094 40,916
Brent … … 151,277 181,125 144,448 169,375
Camden … … 23,673 20,634 23,624 20,991
Croydon … … 67,265 82,151 100,912 108,042
Ealing … … 165,988 197,313 246,922 388,157
Enfield … … 10,386 8,370 15,569 10,216
Greenwich … … 3,406 — — —
Hackney … … 19,261 22,239 28,826 30,996
Hammersmith … … 53,325 56,660 54,524 46,148
Haringey … … 117,773 138,259 169,333 240,151
Harrow … … 2,216 2,713 1,192 1,178
Hillingdon … … 1,795 5,090 4,717 8,416
Hounslow … … 17,812 22,320 35,144 46,420
I.L.E.A … … 966,583 1,109,025 1,564,313 2,071,887
Islington … … 32,103 3,238 19,009 13,186
Kensington and Chelsea … 48,866 61,522 56,908 39,776
Lambeth … … 88,792 103,365 112,756 151,583
Lewisham … … 42,674 52,470 39,358 53,569
Merton … … 12,719 19,114 20,554 26,805
Newham … … 74,933 61,953 73,839 87,371
Redbridge … … 24,504 25,578 28,350 30,590
Southwark … … 15,662 18,687 35,884 32,562
Tower Hamlets … … 14,152 18,864 21,872 27,433
Waltham Forest … … 47,996 56,368 52,402 101,321
Wandsworth … … 1,929 21,859 27,052 49,027
Westminster … … 24,226 32,281 30,375 21,060

Non-County Boroughs and Urban District Councils
Aylesbury … … — — — 163
Bedford … … 995 631 655 551
Gravesend … … 439 303 495 449
High Wycombe … … 843 511 437 666
Hitchin … … 508 761 770 821
Leamington Spa … … 650 746 766 1,187
Letchworth … … 704 1,009 1,071 1,189
Loughborough … … 536 164 — —
Rugby … … 53 19 16 26
Slough … … 1,860 1,552 5,667 2,865
Stretford … … — — — 6,411
3,690,611 4,395,475 5,504,955 7,009,987
Number of local authorities receiving grant in year 70 71 72 75