§ Mr. Allan Robertsasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report the budget estimates of expenditure in a form consistent with figures in the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy's publication "Financial General and Rating Statistics" of every London borough, metropolitan district, 61W non-metropolitan county in England and Wales, the Greater London Council, the Inner London Education Authority and the Metropolitan Police, in 1974–75, 1975–76 and 1976–77.
§ Mr. KingThe table attached gives the total local rate and grant borne expenditure (1) as shown in the revised (2) budgets for 1976–77 for the authorities in England and Wales requested. (3) Figures for previous years are not available.
Notes:
- (1) This figure is equivalent in coverage to c. 55 of 'Financial and General Rating Statistics 1979/80'.
- (2) Local authorities were asked to revise their budgets downwards in 1976–77—these figures are taken from the (second) revised budget returns.
- (3) Figures for the Metropolitan Police are not available.
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1976–77: REVISED BUDGETS £000 ENGLISH SHIRE COUNTIES Avon 168,648 Bedfordshire 98,288 Berkshire 118,413 Buckinghamshire 96,275 Cambridgeshire 98,006 Cheshire 169,943 Cleveland 124,586 Cornwall 65,946 Cumbria 89,905 Derbyshire 157,038 Devon 156,242 Dorset 95,148 Durham 119,831 East Sussex 110,447 Essex 243,784 Gloucestershire 89,737 Hampshire 255,679 Hereford and Worcester 109,227 Hertfordshire 183,816 Humberside 160,908 Isle of Wight 19,001 Kent 247,524 Lancashire 253,472 Leicestershire 146,507 Lincolnshire 97,507 Norfolk 114,609 Northamptonshire 92,481 Northumberland 56,590 North Yorkshire 121,368 Nottinghamshire 185,799 Oxfordshire 92,024 Salop 61,475 Somerset 70,037 Staffordshire 187,372 Suffolk 92,711 Surrey 173,500 Warwickshire 82,093 West Sussex 102,482 Wiltshire 88,203 WELSH SHIRE COUNTIES Clwyd 74,225 Dyfed 67,144 Gwent 88,040 Gwynedd 48,631 Mid Glamorgan 113,311 Powys 27,045 South Glamorgan 76,706 West Glamorgan 78,283 MET DISTRICTS Greater Manchester Bolton 46,417 Bury 27,678 Manchester 130,821
£000 Oldham 40,613 Rochdale 43,236 Salford 50,013 Stockport 47,184 Tameside 39,504 Trafford 41,435 Wigan 53,307 Merseyside Knowsley 40,343 Liverpool 117,125 St. Helens 33,174 Sefton 49,310 Wirral 63,205 South Yorkshire Barnsley 39,933 Doncaster 57,604 Rotherham 45,584 Sheffield 102,696 Gateshead 41,717 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 64,684 North Tyneside 36,987 South Tyneside 35,005 Sunderland 54,406 West Midlands Birmingham 206,244 Coventry 62,138 Dudley 40,089 Sandwell 54,984 Solihull 30,068 Walsall 44,684 Wolverhampton 46,107 West Yorkshire Bradford 91,315 Calderdale 35,141 Kirklees 63,905 Leeds 116,886 Wakefield 54,819 GLC CITY AND INNER LONDON BOROUGHS Greater London Council and ILEA 785,395 City of London 28,022 Camden 42,967 Greenwich 23,178 Hackney 26,902 Hammersmith and Fulham 23,576 Islington 31,551 Kensington and Chelsea 17,859 Lambeth 40,183 Lewisham 31,776 Southwark 39,497 Tower Hamlets 27,793 Wandsworth 36,026 Westminster 31,912 OUTER LONDON BOROUGHS Barking and Dagenham 32,548 Barnet 49,758 Bexley 40,359 Brent 59,887 Bromley 52,252 Croydon 57,787 Ealing 61,771 Enfield 46,196 Haringey 55,867 Harrow 36,955 Havering 43,837 Hillingdon 52,112 Hounslow 42,768 Kingston-upon-Thames 26,431 Merton 32,842 Newham 53,575 Redbridge 38,402 Richmond-upon-Thames 28,469 Sutton 29,568 Waltham Forest 46,874