HC Deb 07 May 1980 vol 984 cc170-2W
Mr. Peter Robinson

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will give the amount of grant to each district council for recreation purposes for the past three available years; and if he will give each as a percentage of the total and also as a per capita figure to the electorate in each area.

Mr. Goodhart

The information requested is as follows:

District Council Electoral population Grant paid £ 1977–78 percentage of total grant per capita figure £ Grant paid £ 1978–79 percentage of total grant per capita figure £ Grant paid £ 1979–80 percentage of total grant Per capita figure £
Antrim … 26,574 111,859 2.57 4.20 225,242 4.63 8.47 292,964 5.16 11.02
Ards … 40,413 32,708 0.75 0.80 27,201 0.56 0.67 35,349 0.62 0.87
Armagh … 33,147 17,194 0.39 0.51 29,296 0.60 0.88 56,149 0.98 1.69
Ballymena … 37,380 255,539 5.88 6.83 250,000 5.14 6.68 39,889 0.70 1.06
Ballymoney … 15,761 44,468 1.02 2.82 48,858 1.00 3.09 291,463 5.13 18.49
Banbridge … 21,219 37,932 0.87 1.78 20,196 0.41 0.95 159,449 2.80 7.51
Belfast … 232,905 1,721,395 39.62 7.39 2,209,253 45.48 9.48 2,411,965 42.49 10.35
Carrickfergus … 19,731 257,444 5.92 13.29 279,933 5.76 14.18 146,843 2.58 7.44
Castlereagh … 44,972 173,714 3.99 3.86 131,692 2.71 2.92 87,917 1.54 1.95
Coleraine … 31,923 57,037 1.31 1.78 70,582 1.45 2.21 190,875 3.36 5.97
Cookstown … 19,177 730 0.01 0.03 5,699 0.11 0.29 82,924 1.46 4.32
Craigavon … 48,748 162,931 3.75 3.34 97,368 200 1.99 157,618 2.77 3.23
Down … 34,038 157,207 3.61 4.61 203,888 4.19 5.99 206,015 3.62 605
Dungannon … 29,576 133,051 306 4.49 10,086 0.20 0.34 45,838 0.80 1.54
Fermanagh … 36,566 46,937 1.08 1.28 94,858 1.95 2.59 258,990 4.56 7.08
Larne … 20,366 49,619 1.14 2.43 44,469 0.91 2.18 35,416 0.62 1.73
Limavady … 15,619 15,154 0.34 0.97 17,610 0.36 112 84,400 1.48 5.40
Lisburn … 54,643 109,226 2.51 1.99 123,021 2.53 2.25 87,367 1.53 1.59
Londonderry … 52,545 247,340 5.69 4.70 621,210 12.78 11.82 283,857 500 5.40
Magherafelt … 21,916 48,476 1.11 2.21 20,433 0.42 0.93 52,308 0.92 2.38
Moyle … 9,645 82,621 1.90 8.56 41,624 0.85 4.31 169,692 2.98 17.59
Newry and Mourne … 50,110 102,628 2.36 2.04 74,917 1.54 1.49 66,834 117 1.33
Newtownabbey … 51,528 112,366 2.58 2.18 44,922 0.92 0.87 2,593 004 005
North Down … 45,960 65,162 1.50 1.41 80,512 1.65 1.75 91,712 1.61 1.99
Omagh … 28,347 113,702 2.61 401 59,699 1.22 210 279,272 4.92 9.85
Strabane … 22,753 187,264 4.31 8.23 24,597 0.50 1.08 58,908 1.03 2.58
Total 1,045,562 4,343,704 — — 4,857,166 — — 5,676,607 — —