§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much is spent on civil defence by each county council in England and Wales.
§ Mr. MayhewFollowing are unaudited figures of net civil defence expenditure by county councils in 1979–80:
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£ English counties Avon 42,547 Bedfordshire 35,402 Berkshire 29,189 Buckinghamshire 43,101 Cambridgeshire 55,626 Cheshire 65,831 Cleveland 51,488 Cornwall 32,060 Cumbria 92,576 Derbyshire 43,646 Devon 90,504 Dorset 39,004 Durham 40,348 East Sussex 49,830 Essex 40,486
£ Gloucestershire 60,834 Greater London 337,762 Greater Mancheste 41,405 Hampshire 51,044 Hereford and Worcester 45,069 Hertfordshire 41,907 Humberside 73,317 Isle of Wight 22,431 Kent 68,712 Lancashire 54,277 Leicestershire 58,988 Lincolnshire 49,211 Merseyside 75,829 Norfolk 40,892 Northamptonshire 42,299 Northumberland 64,158 North Yorkshire 51,788 Nottinghamshire 63,095 Oxfordshire 34,974 Salop 30,260 Somerset 64,142 South Yorkshire 45,439 Staffordshire 63,839 Suffolk 47,453 Surrey 68,651 Tyne and Wear 41,617 Warwickshire 42,235 West Midlands 157,464 West Sussex 40,694 West Yorkshire 62,540 Wiltshire 75,496 Welsh counties Clwyd 35,972 Dyfed 40,975 Gwent 44,146 Gwynedd 19,019 Mid-Glamorgan 36,476 Powys 18,736 South Glamorgan 60,917 West Glamorgan 44,548 Rounded total = 3,074,249
§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what responses he has received to draft ES circular 1/1981 addressed to county and district councils.
§ Mr. MayhewThe circular has been sent in draft to local authority associations and the GLC, and their comments are being considered.