§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing the percentage increase in the rate support grant payable for needs elements for each authority in England for 1979–80 as compared with 1974–75.
§ Mr. Guy BarnettFollowing is the table:
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NEEDS ELEMENT CHANGE 1974/75 ON 1979/80 ESTIMATED OUTTURN 1979/80 on1974/75 per cent. Avon 45.275 Bedfordshire 58.900 Berkshire 23.311 Buckinghamshire 22.676 Cambridgeshire 28.736 Cheshire 53.970 Cleveland 77.065 Cornwall 69.021 Cumbria 33.036 Derbyshire 59.499 Devon 44.852 Dorset 36.093 Durham 72.751 East Sussex 41.805 Essex 30.259 Gloucestershire 47.353 Hampshire 45.220 Hereford and Worcester 38.967 Hertfordshire 20.890 Humberside 91.039 Isle of Wight 60.769 Kent 34.644 Lancashire 77.424 Leicestershire 64.948 Lincolnshire 55.973 Norfolk 55.238 Northamptonshire 56.888 Northumberland 34.229 North Yorkshire 33.029 Nottinghamshire 89.278 Oxfordshire 20.296 Salop 59.117 Somerset 42.978 Staffordshire 41.261 Suffolk 31.905 Surrey —3.437 Warwickshire 32.858 West Sussex 16.628 Wiltshire 21.917
NEEDS ELEMENT CHANGE 1974.75 ON 1979.80 ESTIMATED OUTTURN 1979–80 on 1974–75 per cent. Greater Manchester Bolton 83.706 Bury 82.081 Manchester 76.267 Oldham 95.691 Rochdale 101.358 Salford 98.279 Stockport 52.419 Tameside 99.235 Trafford 60.262 Wigan 55.796 Merseyside Knowsley 88.615 Liverpool 71.511 St. Helens 64.897 Sefton 76.455 Wirral 66.797 South Yorkshire Barnsley 89.278 Doncaster 70.569 Rotherham 68.838 Sheffield 66.772 Tyne and Wear Gateshead 82.940 Newcastle upon Tyne 54.802 North Tyneside 86.392 South Tyneside 96.606 Sunderland 84.239 West Midlands Birmingham 73.642 Coventry 59.109 Dudley 27.075 Sandwell 82.396 Solihull 44.813 Walsall 67.533 Wolverhampton 96.565 West Yorkshire Bradford 76.675 Calderdale 83.312 Kirklees 69.662 Leeds 67.155 Wakefield 70.099 532W
NEEDS ELEMENT CHANGE 1974/75 ON 1979/80 ESTIMATED OUTTURN 1979/80 on1974/75 per cent. Camden 85.894 Greenwich 98.688 Hackney 97.031 Hammersmith 93.920 Islington 86.814 Kensington and Chelsea 87.906 Lambeth 93.907 Lewisham 99.872 Southwark 91.996 Tower Hamlets 78.216 Wandsworth 97.351
Westminster 114.457 Barking 97.727 Barnet 91.518 Bexley 102.760 Brent 138.808 Bromley 120.428 Croydon 118.685 Ealing 115.183 Enfield 124.788 Haringey 125.018 Harrow 89.639 Havering 87.946 Hillingdon 91.454 Hounslow 100.273 Kingston-upon-Thames 93.359 Merton 117.772 Newham 117.655 Redbridge 120.149 Richmond-upon-Thames 120.564 Sutton 123.337 Waltham Forest 136.968
§ Mr. Michael Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list all the factors which have been employed in regression analysis formulae for the distribution of rate support grant in each year since 1974–75, including 1979–80, giving the relative weighting of each factor in each year.
§ Mr. Guy BarnettThe factors and their relative weightings are given in the following publications:
1974–75 1975 SI 1248 1975–76 1976 SI 2201 1976–77 1977 SI 2114 1977–78 1978 SI 2115 1978–79 The Rate Support Grant (Increase) (No. 2) Order 1978 1979– 80 The Rate Support Grant Order 1978 The 1978 orders referred to are at present laid before this House for approval by resolution.
§ Mr. Michael Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was (a) the percentage change in needs element of rate suport grant and (b) the percentage change in population in each non-metropolitan county, metropolitan district and London borough for each year since 1974–75.
§ Mr. Guy BarnettThe percentage changes in the needs element of rate support grant and populations are shown in the attached tables. No estimated population figures are yet available for mid-1978.
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NEEDS ELEMENT INCREASES IN MONEY TERMS TABLE 18 1975–76 on 1974–75 1976–77 on 1975–76 1977–78 on 1976–77 1978–79* on 1977–78 1979–80* on 1978–79* % % % % % Avon … … … 21.318 4.243 —1.077 7.681 7.840 Bedfordshire … … … 24.807 6.379 0.278 7.359 11.170 Berkshire … … … 11.861 2.033 —2.607 7.054 3.621 Buckinghamshire … … … 12.775 4.886 —6.814 3.339 7.699 Cambridgeshire … … … 19.564 5.432 —13.155 4.988 11.694 Cheshire … … … 27.720 4.750 —0.130 5.888 8.829 Cleveland … … … 31.447 8.238 6.234 6.912 9.575 Cornwall … … … 25.772 9.068 6.708 5.570 9.376 Cumbria … … … 16.892 5.556 —2.994 5.818 5.038 Derbyshire … … … 26.137 7.496 —0.769 10.009 7.756 Devon … … … 19.780 3.739 0.784 7.567 7.530 Dorset … … … 21.011 5.540 —4.662 5.099 6.348 Durham … … … 29.248 9.782 3.612 5.919 10.939 East Sussex … … … 22.711 5.399 2.099 5.046 2.227 Essex … … … 12.851 1.719 —3.089 1.073 15.848 Gloucestershire … … … 27.213 5.127 —1.637 5.462 6.215 Hampshire … … … 21.319 3.895 6.544 6.193 1.831 Hereford and Worcester … … … 19.689 6.657 —6.413 6.714 9.002 Hertfordshire … … … 16.059 0.801 —5.970 2.088 7.647 Humberside … … … 31.423 9.285 9.196 9.733 11.007 Isle of Wight … … … 29.317 7.832 2.822 2.548 9.342 Kent … … … 14.410 3.386 1.318 1.753 10.415 Lancashire … … … 30.843 7.965 6.998 8.182 8.506 Leicestershire … … … 27.075 8.429 3.749 7.112 7.725 Lincolnshire … … … 21.778 9.966 1.170 8.350 6.253 Norfolk … … … 22.385 8.339 —0.442 9.175 7.717 Northamptonshire … … … 32.352 9.022 —1.941 4.623 5.981 Northumberland … … … 16.181 7.921 —3.076 4.034 6.170 North Yorkshire … … … 14.553 6.557 —4.624 8.748 5.074 Nottinghamshire … … … 29.903 10.789 9.773 9.057 9.859 Oxfordshire … … … 16.569 0.567 —13.440 5.201 12.686 Salop … … … 22.594 8.623 1.667 5.080 10.943 Somerset … … … 23.325 6.723 —4.681 6.387 7.126 Staffordshire … … … 23.947 4.888 —4.705 5.632 7.944 Suffolk … … … 19.943 4.561 —5.540 5.825 5.216 Surrey … … … 4.000 —2.670 —14.584 1.359 10.188 Warwickshire … … … 25.935 4.095 —9.076 3.182 8.027 West Sussex … … … 23.827 3.211 —12.284 —0.358 4.409 Wiltshire … … … 19.064 3.340 —8.856 4.006 4.526 Clywd … … … 26.503 8.294 1.470 5.143 11.582 Dyfed … … … 19.387 6.898 0.578 6.921 5.412 Gwent … … … 26.847 8.264 1.606 7.149 10.904 Gwynedd … … … 21.298 8.322 2.978 3.502 5.610 Mid Glamorgan … … … 27.899 10.114 6.417 9.430 11.610 Powys … … … 22.271 8.979 7.790 5.390 4.465 South Glamorgan … … … 22.889 7.989 6.786 7.290 10.427 West Glamorgan … … … 28.822 6.625 0.543 5.516 11 089 Bolton … … … 34.087 10.455 8.327 5.415 8.620 Bury … … … 21.823 6.170 0.638 28.971 8.462 Manchester … … … 18.170 9.226 11.273 11.472 10.100 Oldham … … … 27.757 9.862 9.649 13.478 12.052 Rochdale … … … 30.869 12.207 10.828 11.492 10.974 Salford … … … 28.778 11.528 12.613 11.277 10.169 Stockport … … … 26.960 4.104 —1.950 10.632 6.310 Tameside … … … 35.237 9.961 9.103 13.911 7.803 Trafford … … … 35.864 6.104 4.396 3.648 2.742 Wigan … … … 31.958 6.516 1.518 2.590 6.429 Knowsley … … … 33.353 9.048 14.554 6.660 6.156 Liverpool … … … 22.059 6.766 12.908 7.630 8.300 St. Helens … … … 24.489 4.315 4.016 9.513 11.472 Sefton … … … 32.951 7.377 8.495 6.029 7.446 Wirral … … … 27.434 7.271 7.041 5.230 8.326 Barnsley … … … 31.098 10.022 7.852 9.735 10.879 Doncaster … … … 38.227 7.447 —0.308 5.729 8.958 Rotherham … … … 29.715 7.777 3.194 4.203 12.310 Sheffield … … … 29.751 8.398 9.566 3.075 4.994 * 1978–79, 1979–80 estimated outturn.
NEEDS ELEMENT INCREASE; IN MONEY TERMS TABLE 18 1975–76on 1974–75 1976–77on 1975–76 1977–78on 1976–77 1978–79*on 1977–78 1979–80*on 1978–79* % % % % % Gateshead … … … 26.263 8.835 8.723 10.907 10.404 Newcastle-upon-Tyne … … … 19.720 6.168 3.844 7.382 9.221 North Tyneside … … … 26.011 11.578 5.390 11.122 13.198 South Tyneside … … … 33.663 11.847 12.623 9.015 7.115 Sunderland … … … 31.447 8.943 13.503 3.179 9.859 Birmingham … … … 22.199 9.541 10.111 9.257 7.827 Coventry … … … 25.344 4.848 3.336 10.728 5.809 Dudley … … … 26.429 3.611 —9.669 2.727 4.541 Sandwell … … … 29.499 12.115 10.967 9.242 3.634 Solihull … … … 40.158 1.299 —4.833 3.003 4.052 Walsall … … … 30.190 9.655 4.716 5.631 60.93 Wolverhampton … … … 30.439 11.578 13.280 10.113 8.275 Bradford … … … 25.520 10.014 8.628 9.199 7.859 Calderdale … … … 31.947 10.348 10.107 8.205 5.673 Kirklees … … … 31.923 10.013 7.550 2.998 5.531 Leeds … … … 25.217 6.314 6.632 7.044 10.006 Wakefield … … … 31.431 7.175 2.377 7.099 10.134 London— Camden … … … 11.044 16.723 0.700 22.466 16.297 Greenwich … … … 10.868 23.456 1.574 19.067 20.027 Hackney … … … 7.302 28.047 6.179 20.985 11.632 Hammersmith … … … 12.102 22.963 3.343 21.170 12.346 Islington … … … 6.908 24.349 6.951 20.185 9.326 Kensington and Chelsea … … … 16.485 20.650 1.113 18.430 11.655 Lambeth … … … 7.859 24.235 4.792 21.747 13.424 Lewisham … … … 12.190 25.103 4.937 20.357 12.753 Southwark … … … 7.497 26.631 6.256 20.115 10.512 Tower Hamlets … … … 2.523 26.690 6.343 18.048 9.299 Westminster … … … 21.692 10.667 —13.403 38.096 33.161 Wandsworth … … … 12.861 26.873 2.113 20.902 11.638 Barking … … … 27.574 16.787 3.586 19.470 7.238 Barnet … … … 21.143 20.751 2.466 19.743 6.706 Bexley … … … 23.166 18.585 3.561 21.014 10.772 Brent … … … 23.436 26.164 13.194 26.343 7.225 Bromley … … … 14.190 29.487 7.364 23.914 12.055 Croydon … … … 21.702 24.282 4.841 22.427 12.643 Ealing … … … 14.959 31.008 7.887 24.303 6.541 Enfield … … … 25.919 25.203 4.682 21.748 11.896 Haringey … … … 24.238 25.934 9.735 25.256 4.635 Harrow … … … 18.631 17.431 3.043 20.565 9.573 Havering … … … 20.150 21.299 4.310 19.108 3.798 Hillingdon … … … 9.594 24.438 1.456 21.772 13.631 Hounslow … … … 17.055 23.429 4.364 20.525 10.202 Kingston-upon-Thames … … … 18.656 21.546 2.544 17.435 11.333 Merton … … … 17.078 28.775 6.137 22.957 10.681 Newham … … … 26.109 25.425 8.052 21.427 4.879 Redbridge … … … 14.428 22.626 8.511 27.608 13.305 Richmond-upon-Thames … … … 19.521 27.951 4.785 24.676 10.399 Sutton … … … 24.503 26.262 6.138 23.129 8.712 Waltham Forest … … … 25.444 23.620 11.189 27.047 8.174 *1978–79, 1979–80 estimated outturn.
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CHANGES IN POPULATION 1975–76 on 1974–75 1976–77 on 1975–76 1977–78 on 1976–77 Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Avon … … … 0.186 0.055 —0.087 Bedfordshire … … … 0.453 0.574 —0.224 Berkshire … … … 0.076 0.702 1.213 Buckinghamshire … … … 1.065 1.730 0.899 Cambridgeshire … … … 2.180 1.627 0.409 Cheshire … … … 0.785 0.362 —0.142 Cleveland … … … —0.088 0.159 0.406 Cornwall … … … 1.158 0.946 1.504 Cumbria … … … —0.336 0.105 —0.168 Derbyshire … … … —0.336 0.214 0.572 Devon … … … 0.883 0.801 0.328
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1975–76 on 1974–75 1976–77 on 1975–76 1977–78 on 1976–77 Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Dorset … 0.316 1.084 0.900 Durham … —0033 0.049 —0.540 East Sussex … —0.274 0.122 —0.624 Essex … 0.518 0.869 —0.133 Gloucestershire … 0.536 0.533 0.489 Hampshire … 0.886 0.456 —0.200 Hereford and Worcester … 0.667 0.849 1.482 Hertfordshire … —0.647 0.064 0.405 Humberside … —0.024 —0.094 —0.201 Isle of Wight … 0.542 0.988 1.068 Kent … 0.090 0.319 —0.228 Lancashire … 0.168 0.087 —0.495 Leicestershire … 0.724 0.132 —0.419 Lincolnshire … 0.598 0.594 0.914 Norfolk … 1.107 1.004 1.611 Northamptonshire … 1.008 0.718 1.803 Northumberland … 0.280 0.209 1.078 North Yorkshire … 0.509 0.123 0.184 Nottinghamshire … 0.225 —0.326 —0.317 Oxfordshire … 0.729 0.352 —0.296 Salop … 0.395 0.000 1.292 Somerset … 0.499 0.969 1.230 Staffordshire … 0.252 0.312 —0.191 Suffolk … 0.741 0.998 2.029 Surrey … —0.546 0.110 —0.688 Warwickshire … 0.213 0.064 —0.786 West Sussex … 0.861 0.789 0.112 Wiltshire … 0.453 0.490 0.273 Clwyd … 0.671 0.453 0.796 Dyfed … 0.907 0.000 0.713 Gwent … —0023 —0.250 0.182 Gwynedd … 0.492 0.490 0.487 Mid Glamorgan … 0.279 —0.167 0.093 Powys … 0.697 1.383 2.827 South Glamorgan … —0.408 0.128 —1.408 West Glamorgan … 0.027 —0.242 —0.809 Isles of Scilly … 0.000 0.000 —5.000 Greater Manchester: Bolton … —0.115 —0.153 —0.345 Bury … 0.111 0.277 —0.607 Manchester … —1.986 —1.470 —0.907 Oldham … 1.113 —0.440 —0.575 Rochdale … 0.142 0.190 —0.615 Salford … —1.304 —1.397 —0.459 Stockport … —0.949 —0.342 —0.584 Tameside … —0.045 —0.270 —0.676 Trafford … 0.000 —0088 0.088 Wigan … 0.945 0.323 0.096 Merseyside: Knowsley … 0.933 —1.203 —1.376 Liverpool … —1.873 —1.472 —0.959 St. Helens … 0.052 —0.258 —1.654 Sefton … —0.293 —0.425 —0.951 Wirral … —0.998 — 0.346 0.058 South Yorkshire: Barnsley … —0.178 0.000 —0.491 Doncaster … 0.316 0.140 0.070 Rotherham … 0–202 0.161 —0.442 Sheffield … —0.232 —0.821 —1.440 Tyne and Wear: Gateshead … 0.090 —0.584 —1.762 Newcastle-upon-Tyne … —0.202 —0.810 —0.442 North Tyneside … —1.167 —1131 —1.940 South Tyneside … —1.340 —1.712 0.240 Sunderland … 0.890 1.188 0.604 West Midlands: Birmingham … —1.077 —1.182 1.102 Coventry … 1.224 0.177 0.206 Dudley … 0.334 —0.166 —0.999 Sandwell … —1.220 —1.204 0.385 Solihull … —0.651 0.151 —0.201
1975–76 on 1974–75 1976–77 on 9175–76 1977–78 on 1976–77 Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. West Midlands—cont. Walsall … … —0.478 —0.517 —0.594 Wolverhampton … … 0.299 —0.856 —1.202 West Yorkshire: Bradford … … 0.109 —0.022 0.694 Calderdale … … —0.675 —1.045 0.528 Kirklees … … 0.187 0.186 0.133 Leeds … … —0.120 —0.481 —1.410 Wakefield … … 0.197 0.294 0.098 Camden … … —0.833 —0.210 —0.421 Greenwich … … —1.081 —0.760 —1.292 Hackney … … 0.3119 —1.882 —2.070 Hammersimth … … 0.412 —2.929 1.086 Islington … … —2.122 —2.624 —1.347 Kensington and Chelsea … … —2.506 —2.203 —0.188 Lambeth … … —0.305 —2.514 —1.429 Lewisham … … —3.190 —2.116 1.330 Southwark … … —3.309 —.481 —1.711 Tower Hamlets … … —0.999 —1.480 2.664 Wandsworth … … —0.962 —1.768 —1.765 Westminster … … —1.006 —0.924 —2.145 Barking … … —1.206 —.0.899 —.0.843 Barnet … … 1.816 —1.123 —2.405 Bexley … … —0.553 —0.232 —0.279 Brent … … —2.380 —1.867 —0.660 Bromley … … —0.862 —0.736 —1.247 Croydon … … 0.030 —0.152 —2.069 Ealing … … 0.068 1.222 —2.080 Enfield … … —0.607 —0.573 0.000 Haringey … … 0.829 —1.774 0.396 Harrow … … —0.445 —0.298 —0.996 Havering … … —1.932 —0.251 1.008 Hillingdon … … —1.029 —0.260 —0.521 Hounslow … … —1.028 —0.841 —0.200 Kingston-upon-Thames … … —0.659 0.000 0.590 Merton … … — 1.485 —1.623 —2.298 Newham … … 0.130 —0.996 0.481 Redbridge … … —1.275 —0.517 —0.909 Richmond-upon-Thames … … —1.062 —1.014 —0.542 Sutton … … —0.239 0.240 —0.299 Waltham Forest … … —2.382 —1.287 —0.315
§ Mr. Michael Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what percentage of total relevant expenditure the rate support grant represented in each non-metropolitan county, metropolitan district and London borough, for each year since 1974–75.
§ Mr. Guy BarnettI will write to the hon. Gentleman.