§ Mr. Michael Lathamasked 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 BarnettThe 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 89W 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