§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the amounts to be given to each local authority by way of the domestic and 65W needs element of the rate support grant in 1977–78.
§ Mr. Guy BarnettThe amounts to be distributed at the first estimate of the needs and domestic elements of rate support grant for the year 1977–78 are listed below:
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RATE SUPPORT GRANT 1977–78 Main Order Needs Grant £000 Column 1 Domestic Grant £000 Column 2 Avon 56,333 0 Bedfordshire 31,886 0 Berkshire 42,363 0 Buckinghamshire 29,351 0 Cambridgeshire 28,394 0 Cheshire 57,014 0 Cleveland 52,852 0 Cornwall 27,199 0 Cumbria 36,289 0 Derbyshire 57,360 0 Devon 52,452 0 Dorset 29,471 0 Durham 44,440 0 East Sussex 36,906 0 Essex 84,897 0 Gloucestershire 30,336 0 Hampshire 93,362 0 Hereford/Worcester 33,581 0 Hertfordshire 64,805 0 Humberside 68,899 0 Isle of Wight 6,267 0 Kent 91,390 0 Lancashire 102,836 0 Leicestershire 58,734 0 Lincolnshire 36,212 0 Norfolk 39,380 0 Northamptonshire 32,548 0 Northumberland 22,599 0 North Yorkshire 44,444 0 Nottinghamshire 78,106 0 Oxfordshire 26,288 0 Salop 23,569 0 Somerset 23,066 0 Staffordshire 60,291 0 Suffolk 29,406 0 Surrey 43,254 0 Warwickshire 27,027 0 West Sussex 30,973 0 Wiltshire 29,808 0 Clwyd 26,251 0 Dyfed 27,106 0 Gwent 32,537 0 Gwynedd 19,434 0 Mid-Glamorgan 40,113 0 Powys 15,010 0 South Glamorgan 30,332 0 West Glamorgan 24,917 0 Isle of Scilly 318 27 Greater Manchester: Bolton 22,998 2,737 Bury 10,400 2,142 Manchester 66,668 5,140 Oldham 17,709 2,112 Rochdale 18,979 1,889 Salford 27,999 2,856 Stockport 18,850 4,204 Tameside 17,923 2,181 67W
Trafford 17,809 3,311 Wigan 22,405 3,058 Merseyside: Knowsley 20,422 1,979 Liverpool 69,728 5,772 St. Helens 12,719 2,049 Sefton 25,519 3,952 Wirral 27,605 4,645 South Yorkshire: Barnsley 16,680 1,725 Doncaster 23,322 2,477 Rotherham 18,884 2,053 Sheffield 44,238 5,075 Tyne and Wear: Gateshead 16,965 1,995 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 25,751 3,140 North Tyneside 15,438 2,168 South Tyneside 18,321 1,578 Sunderland 25,351 2,530 West Midlands: Birmingham 105,587 13,671 Coventry 27,456 4,106 Dudley 15,426 4,174 Sandwell 27,323 3,953 Solihull 12,306 3,304 Wallsall 21,520 3,529 Wolverhampton 24,343 3,587 West Yorkshire: Bradford 41,316 3,757 Calderdale 16,287 1,476 Kirklees 29,880 2,796 Leeds 54,668 7,068 Wakefield 21,105 2,594 Greater London Council 21,593 0 City of London 8 329 Camden 20,721 4,931 Greenwich 19,892 3,183 Hackney 27,288 3,284 Hammersmith 20,936 2,879 Islington 25,518 3,135 Royal Kensington and Chelsea 18,017 6,435 Lambeth 33,934 4,565 Lewisham 27,495 4,029 Southwark 32,350 3,729 Tower Hamlets 21,973 2,596 Wandsworth 30,563 4,714 Westminster 13,358 10,625 Barking 28,494 2,375 Barnet 35,512 7,306 Bexley 17,327 3,402 Brent 33,553 4,748 Bromley 25,376 5,909 Croydon 27,883 6,429 Ealing 31,059 5,025 Enfield 21,323 4,829 Haringey 29,589 3,610 Harrow 16,710 4,099 Havering 18,974 4,267 Hillingdon 14,492 4,052 Hounslow 19,380 3,427 Royal Kingston-on-Thames 19,554 2,731 Merton 15,776 3,350 Newham 30,295 3,027 Redbridge 16,507 4,349 Richmond-upon-Thames 13,163 3,527 Sutton 13,791 3,194 Waltham Forest 20,839 3,597 Avon: Bath 0 1,043 Bristol 0 4,679 Kingswood 0 925
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Main Order Needs Grant £000 Column 1 Domestic Grant £000 Column 2 Northavon 0 1,286 Wansdyke 0 934 Woodspring 0 2,051 Bedfordshire: North Bedfordshire 0 1,711 Luton 0 2,450 South Bedfordshire 0 1,490 Mid Bedfordshire 0 1,260 Berkshire: Bracknell 0 1,124 Newbury 0 1,673 Reading 0 1,744 Slough 0 1,399 Windsorand Maidenhead 0 2,254 Wokingham 0 1,859 Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury Vale 0 1,654 Beaconsfield 0 1,415 Chiltern 0 1,941 Milton Keynes 0 1,112 Wycombe 0 2,641 Cambridgeshire: Cambridge 0 1,569 East Cambridgeshire 0 597 Fenland 0 693 Huntingdon 0 1,375 Peterborough 0 1,372 South Cambridgeshire 0 1,547 Cheshire: Chester 0 1,567 Congleton 0 973 Crewe and Nantwich 0 1,177 Ellesmere Port 0 1,046 Halton 0 1,164 Macclesfield 0 2,367 Vale Royal 0 1,291 Warrington 0 1,814 Cleveland: Hartlepool 0 839 Langbaurgh 0 1,584 Middlesbrough 0 1,520 Stockton-on-Tees 0 1,847 Cornwall: Caradon 0 686 Carrick 0 847 Kerrier 0 810 North Cornwall 0 701 Penwith 0 601 Restormel 0 814 Cumbria: Allerdale 0 778 Barrow in Furness 0 564 Carlisle 0 900 Copeland 0 505 Eden 0 359 South Lakeland 0 1,030 Derbyshire: Amber Valley 0 1,104 Bolsover 0 587 Chesterfield 0 951 Derby 0 2,438 Erewash 0 1,058 High Peak 0 765 North East Derbyshire 0 939 South Derbyshire 0 669 West Derbyshire 0 750 69W
Devon: East Devon 0 1,437 Exeter 0 1,100 North Devon 0 699 Plymouth 0 2,769 South Hams 0 832 Teignbridge 0 1,146 Tiverton 0 558 Torbay 0 1,588 Torridge 0 413 West Devon 0 438 Dorset: Bournemouth 0 2,269 Christchurch 0 664 North Dorset 0 544 Poole 0 1,864 Purbeck 0 513 West Dorset 0 946 Weymouth and Portland 0 649 Wimborne 0 1,043 Durham: Chester-Le-Street 0 480 Darlington 0 954 Derwentside 0 735 Durham 0 784 Easington 0 781 Sedgefield 0 741 Teesdale 0 188 Wear Valley 0 469 East Sussex: Brighton 0 2,364 Eastbourne 0 1,362 Hastings 0 1,072 Hove 0 1,743 Lewes 0 1,295 Rother 0 1,451 Wealden 0 1,778 Essex: Basildon 0 2,127 Braintree 0 1,421 Brentwood 0 1,428 Castle Point 0 1,319 Chelmsford 0 2,092 Colchester 0 1,717 Epping Forest 0 2,167 Harlow 0 1,128 Maldon 0 698 Rochford 0 1,175 Southend-on-Sea 0 2,861 Tendring 0 1,789 Thurrock 0 1,912 Uttlesford 0 940 Gloucestershire: Cheltenham 0 1,215 Cotswold 0 954 Forest of Dean 0 671 Gloucester 0 937 Stroud 0 1,167 Tewkesbury 0 1,051 Hampshire: Basingstoke 0 1,583 East Hampshire 0 1,256 Eastleigh 0 1,168 Fareham 0 1,238 Gosport 0 999 Hart 0 1,071 Havant 0 1,647 New Forest 0 1,949 Portsmouth 0 2,256 Rushmoor 0 982 Southampton 0 2,484 Test Valley 0 1,186 Winchester 0 1,261
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Main Order Needs Grant £000 Column 1 Domestic Grant £000 Column 2 Hereford and Worcester: Bromsgrove 0 1,238 Hereford 0 503 Leominster 0 372 Malvern Hills 0 1,156 Redditch 0 691 South Hereford 0 485 Worcester 0 1,054 Wychavon 0 1,344 Wyre Forest 0 1,250 Hertfordshire: Broxbourne 0 1,114 Dacorum 0 2,018 East Hertfordshire 0 1,549 Hertsmere 0 1,558 North Hertfordshire 0 1,664 St. Albans 0 2,152 Stevenage 0 1,069 Three Rivers 0 1,483 Watford 0 1,219 Welwyn Hatfield 0 1,575 Humberside: Beverley 0 1,354 Boothferry 0 471 Cleethorpes 0 704 Glanford 0 621 Grimsby 0 880 Holderness 0 444 Kingston-Upon-Hull 0 2,286 North Wolds 0 669 Scunthorpe 0 690 Isle of Wight: Medina 0 787 South Wight 0 633 Kent: Ashford 0 1,033 Canterbury 0 1,496 Dartford 0 890 Dover 0 1,136 Gillingham 0 1,107 Gravesham 0 1,189 Maidstone 0 1,543 Medway 0 1,657 Sevenoaks 0 1,378 Shepway 0 1,237 Swale 0 1,120 Thanet 0 1,588 Tonbridge and Malling 0 1,087 Tunbridge Wells 0 1,218 Lancashire: Blackburn 0 1,122 Blackpool 0 1,759 Burnley 0 646 Chorley 0 845 Fylde 0 966 Hyndburn 0 609 Lancaster 0 1,289 Pendle 0 621 Preston 0 1,188 Ribble Valley 0 516 Rossendale 0 493 South Ribble 0 924 West Lancashire 0 1,279 Wyre 0 1,219 Leicestershire: Blaby 0 1,021 Charnwood 0 1,816 71W
Harborough 0 805 Hinckley and Bosworth 0 1,032 Leicester 0 2,743 Melton 0 538 North West Leicestershire 0 866 Oadby and Wigston 0 710 Rutland 0 360 Lincolnshire: Boston 0 556 East Lindsey 0 1,107 Lincoln 0 725 North Kesteven 0 810 South Holland 0 618 South Kesteven 0 1,016 West Lindsey 0 719 Norfolk: Breckland 0 1,022 Broadland 0 1,210 Great Yarmouth 0 927 North Norfolk 0 1,016 Norwich 0 1,441 South Norfolk 0 1,116 West Norfolk 0 1,239 Northampton: Corby 0 602 Daventry 0 739 East Northampton 0 675 Kettering 0 828 Northampton 0 1,843 South Northampton 0 829 Wellingborough 0 713 Northumberland: Alnwick 0 276 Berwick-upon-Tweed 0 273 Blyth Valley 0 702 Castle Morpeth 0 574 Tynedale 0 544 Wansbeck 0 544 North Yorkshire: Craven 0 426 Hambleton 0 801 Harrogate 0 1,582 Richmondshire 0 430 Ryedale 0 766 Scarborough 0 1,060 Selby 0 668 York 0 922 Nottinghamshire: Ashfield 0 937 Bassetlaw 0 924 Broxtowe 0 1,174 Gedling 0 1,222 Mansfield 0 941 Newark 0 1,036 Nottingham 0 2,972 Rushcliffe 0 1,200 Oxfordshire: Cherwell 0 1,318 Oxford 0 1,499 South Oxfordshire 0 2,044 Vale of White Horse 0 1,378 West Oxfordshire 0 1,036 Salop: Bridgnorth 0 596 North Shropshire 0 515 Oswestry 0 305 Shrewsbury and Atcham 0 1,045 South Shropshire 0 338 The Wrekin 0 1,230 Somerset: Mendip 0 956
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Main Order Needs Grant £000 Column 1 Domestic Grant £000 Column 2 Sedgemoor 0 1,030 Tauntondeane 0 958 West Somerset 0 383 Yeovil 0 1,455 Staffordshire: Cannock Chase 0 940 East Staffordshire 0 1,032 Lichfield 0 1,214 Newcastle-under-Lyme 0 1,349 South Staffordshire 0 1,248 Stafford 0 1,419 Staffordshire Moorlands 0 1,025 Stoke-on-Trent 0 2,565 Tamworth 0 614 Suffolk: Babergh 0 883 Forest Heath 0 519 Ipswich 0 1,514 Mid Suffolk 0 778 St. Edmundsbury 0 960 Suffolk Coastal 0 1,299 Waveney 0 1,145 Surrey: Elmbridge 0 2,503 Epsom and Ewell 0 1,396 Guildford 0 2,142 Mole Valley 0 1,366 Reigate and Banstead 0 2,084 Runnymede 0 1,149 Spelthorne 0 1,575 Surrey Heath 0 1,285 Tandridge 0 1,252 Waverley 0 1,964 Woking 0 1,399 Warwickshire: North Warwickshire 0 713 Nuneaton 0 1,371 Rugby 0 1,154 Stratford-on-Avon 0 1,661 Warwick 0 1,771 West Sussex: Adur 0 878 Arun 0 1,881 Chichester 0 1,442 Crawley 0 851 Horsham 0 1,347 Mid Sussex 0 1,652 Worthing 0 1,564 Wiltshire: Kennet 0 707 North Wiltshire 0 1,007 Salisbury 0 1,244 Thamesdown 0 1,421 West Wiltshire 0 1,031 Chwyd: Alyn-and-Deeside 0 1,331 Colwyn 0 1,129 Delyn 0 1,202 Glyndwr 0 652 Rhuddlan 0 1,090 Wrexham Maelor 0 1,782 Dyfed: Carmarthen 0 666 Ceredigion 0 875 Dinefwr 0 419 Llanelli 0 1,033
Preseli 0 916 South Pembrokeshire 0 615 Gwent: Blaenau Gwent 0 1,004 Islwyn 0 846 Monmouth 0 1,183 Newport 0 2,513 Torfaen 0 1,380 Gwynedd: Aberconwy 0 1,052 Arfon 0 701 Dwyfor 0 420 Meirionnydd 0 541 Ynys Mon 0 1,049 Mid Glamorgan: Cynon Valley 0 704 Merthyr Tydfil 0 681 Ogwr 0 1,837 Rhondda 0 714 Rhymney Valley 0 1,285 Taff-Ely 0 1,183 Powys: Brecknock 0 547 Montgomery 0 631 Radnor 0 288 South Glamorgan: Cardiff 0 6,042 Vale of Glamorgan 0 2,000 West Glamorgan: Afan 0 766 Lliw Valley 0 739 Neath 0 922 Swansea 0 3,190 Shire Counties—England 1,711,336 0 Shire Counties—Wales 210,463 0 Total Shire Counties 1,921,799 0 Metropolitan Counties 0 0 Metropolitan Districts 1,022,658 124,810 Total Metropolitan Counties 1,022,658 124,810 GLC 21,593 0 Inner London 292,053 54,434 Outer London 449,597 83,253 Total London Boroughs 741,650 137,687 Districts—England 0 350,565 Districts—Wales 0 43,931 Total Districts 0 394,496 Total Authorities England 3,497,237 613,062 Total Authorities Wales 210,463 43,931 Total England and Wales 3,707,700 656,993 South-East 1,326,515 285,838 South-West 246,549 51,063 East Anglia 88,634 22,222 West Midlands 379,036 66,522 East Midlands 259,686 41,338 North-West 554,047 72,902 Yorkshire and Humberside 382,579 43,795 Northern Region 260,191 29,382 Wales 210,463 43,931 Total England and Wales 3,707,700 656,993