HC Deb 16 February 1981 vol 999 cc19-20W
Mr. Pawsey

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much is spent on civil defence by each county council in England and Wales.

Mr. Mayhew

Following are unaudited figures of net civil defence expenditure by county councils in 1979–80:

£
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. Pawsey

asked 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. Mayhew

The circular has been sent in draft to local authority associations and the GLC, and their comments are being considered.

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