House Improvement (Northumberland)

HC Deb 23 January 1976 vol 903 cc608-9W

Mr. George Grant

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the allocation to each local authority in the county of Northumberland for the purpose of house improvement in each of the last five years.

Mr. Armstrong

Controls over expenditure on local authority house improvement were introduced in 1975–76. The allocations for Northumberland are as follows:

	1975–76	1976–77
	£	£
Alnwick	113,780	50,000
Berwick	500,000	500,000
Blyth Valley	1,587,000	700,000
Castle Morpeth	200,000	100,000
Tynedale	267,000	100,000
Wansbeck	750,000	450,000

Allocations for 1975–76 took account of high levels of existing commitments. Those for 1976–77 reflect more closely the amount of work proposed by each authority within the priority categories answered by my hon. Friend on 4th August last.