HC Deb 17 July 1978 vol 954 cc88-9W
Mr. Michael Latham

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, whether he will compare in tabular form for each county council, including any with a nil return, the loan sanctions (a) sought and (b) issued with money actually spent in each case; whether he will indicate for each county the amount of unused loan sanction at the end of the financial year; and whether the unspent allocation is now deemed to have lapsed, as at the end of 1976–77.

Mr. Guy Barnett

The amounts of loan sanction issued under the community land scheme in 1977–78 for each county area are given below. Comprehensive records of loan sanctions applied for are not maintained. Firm figures of actual expenditure by county area are not yet available. The loan sanctions are normally valid only for the year of issue, but reapplications are always considered sympathetically.

County and Loan sanction issued
£
Avon 56,000
Bedfordshire 1,993,957
Berkshire 248,587
Buckinghamshire 39,240
Cambridgeshire 45,400
Cheshire 540,092
Cleveland 509,456
Cornwall 35,700
Cumbria 173,544
Derbyshire 107,388
Devon 82,786
Dorset 178,135
Durham 243,412
East Sussex 528,650
Essex 77,000
Gloucestershire 3,600
Greater London 2,218,951
Greater Manchester 835,890
Hampshire 1,510,370
Hereford and Worcester 675,505
Hertfordshire 353,847
Humberside 247,434
Isle of Wight 43,000
Kent 380,685
Lancashire 356,580
Leicestershire 22,600
Lincolnshire 30,787
Merseyside 125,545
Norfolk 302,590

1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79
£p £p £p £p £p
North West 17.04 25.28 29.82 32.02 34.62
Northumbrian 14.20 27.34 28.35 29.89 32.06
Severn Trent 18.38 26.63 36.30 35.67 35.95
Yorkshire 16.21 25.26 31.37 33.02 35.60
Anglian 24.98 31.12 43.48 46.12 45.02
Thames 17.23 21.80 27.82 29.31 34.66
Southern 26.01 35.42 33.32 40.40 42.20
Wessex 22.37 31.23 41.20 40.95 47.27
South West 24.40 35.01 44.85 47.33 49.68
Welsh 22.85 37.69 44.06 47.70 44.72