Rate Support Grant

HC Deb 21 March 1978 vol 946 cc483-5W

Mr. Cartwright

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will produce a statement, by individual local authorities receiving needs element of rate support grant, showing how the actual distribution of needs element for 1978–79 compares with the distribution which would have taken place if the 1977–78 distribution formula had been applied to 1978–79.

Mr. Guy Barnett

The table below shows in terms of rate poundage equivalents the estimated changes in authorities needs element entitlements as a result of the replacement of the 1977–78 rate support grant arrangements by those for 1978–79. Final figures are not yet available.

English Shire Counties
Avon	+0.1
Bedfordshire	+0.2
Berkshire	-0.8
Buckinghamshire	-1.1
Cambridgeshire	-0.5
Cheshire	-0.4
Cleveland	-0.1
Cornwall	-0.5
Cumbria	-0.6
Derbyshire	+1.3
Devon	+0.3
Dorset	-0.4
Durham	-0.4
East Sussex	-0.7
Essex	-2.0
Gloucestershire	-0.5
Hampshire	-0.2
Herefordshire and Worcestershire	0
Hertfordshire	-2.0
Humberside	+1.3
Isle of Wight	-1.4
Kent	-2.0
Lancashire	+0.6
Leicestershire	+0.1
Lincolnshire	+0.6
Norfolk	+0.9
Northamptonshire	-0.9
Northumberland	-1.1
North Yorkshire	+0.8
Nottinghamshire	+1.0
Oxon	+0.6
Salop	-0.8
Somerset	-0.1
Staffordshire	-0.4
Suffolk	-0.2
Surrey	-0.7
Warwickshire	-1.3
West Sussex	-2.0
Wiltshire	-1.0
Welsh Counties
Clwyd	-0.8
Dyfed	-0.1
Gwent	+0.1
Gwynedd	-2.0
Mid Glamorgan	+1.1
Powys	-2.0
South Glamorgan	-0.2
West Glamorgan	-0.6
Metropolitan Districts
Bolton	-1.0
Bury	+7.9
Manchester	+3.3
Oldham	+3.4
Rochdale	+2.4
Salford	+2.6

Metropolitan Districts
Stockport	+1.7
Tameside	+3.3
Trafford	-2.0
Wigan	-2.0
Knowsley	-2.0
Liverpool	+0.4
St. Helens	+2.1
Sefton	-0.6
Wirral	-0.9
Barnsley	+1.2
Doncaster	-0.7
Rotherham	-1.3
Sheffield	-2.0
Gateshead	+1.9
Newcastle	+0.2
North Tyneside	+2.1
South Tyneside	-1.1
Sunderland	-2.0
Birmingham	+1.2
Coventry	+1.8
Dudley	-1.2
Sandwell	+1.2
Solihull	-1.5
Walsall	-0.7
Wolverhampton	+1.7
Bradford	+1.2
Calderdale	+0.4
Kirklees	-2.0
Leeds	0
Wakefield	+0.1
London Boroughs
City	-0.3
Camden	+0.5
Greenwich	+0.2
Hackney	+2.0
Hammersmith	+2.5
Islington	+0.5
Kingston and Chelsea	+0.1
Lambeth	+2.2
Lewisham	+0.2
Southwark	+0.7
Tower Hamlets	-0.8

	Needs Element (Outturn prices) £ million	Needs Element (1975–76 prices) £ million
1975–76	…	…	…	94.57 (Second increase order)	…	…	…	94.57
1976–77	…	…	…	102.11 (Second increase order)	…	…	…	90.33
1977–78	…	…	…	109.25 (First increase order)	…	…	…	91.35
1978–79	…	…	…	108.90 (main order November 1977)	…	…	…	88.90