HC Deb 09 November 1981 vol 12 cc32-40W
Mr. Kaufman

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the latest available figures for the amount of rate support grant in total for England for the financial year 1980–81 and his estimate in comparable prices for the year 1981–82; and if he will provide figures on the same basis for each local authority in England for each of the two above-mentioned financial years giving the figures for 1981–82 (a) be fore holdback and (b) after holdback.

Mr. Heseltine

I attach a table showing the latest available figures at estimated 1981–82 outturn prices. Column (1) shows the grant so far paid; it is not an estimate of final entitlements. Columns (2) and (3) are exemplifications based on settlement data and the revised budgets submitted to my Department during July. They do not show the effects of any later budget revisions or of any data changes or grant increase that may be proposed at Supplementary Report stage. Column (3) exemplifies grant entitlements based on the proposals that I announced on 3 September. All the columns take into account adjustments made under section 66 of the London Government Act 1963.

I should emphasise that the figures are not directly comparable because of the changes introduced this year by the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980. In particular, grant is now calculated separately for the metropolitan counties, the GLC, ILEA and the Metropolitan Police; while a considerable part of the grant now paid direct to non-metropolitan counties was formerly paid to their districts, and was passed on to the counties as part of their precept.

Rate Support Grant
Estimated 1981–82 outturn prices
1980–81 Col (1) 1981–82 Col (2) 1981–82 with holdback Col (3)
£ million £ million £ million
SHIRE COUNTIES
Avon 93.410 133.319 123.897
Bedfordshire 57.019 60.542 56.285
Berkshire 67.753 64.177 55.115
Buckinghamshire 48.031 54.723 47.243
Cambridgeshire 48.374 72.218 65.966
Cheshire 98.266 139.273 128.185
Cleveland 90.595 110.325 103.576
Cornwall 43.547 68.245 68.245
Cumbria 59.183 94.363 90.660
Derbyshire 98.083 151.466 146.686
Devon 88.715 138.852 138.852
Dorset 46.781 69.235 69.235
Durham 75.736 123.709 119.014
East Sussex 57.743 69.170 67.326
Essex 142.921 155.057 155.057
Gloucestershire 48.272 71.285 70.048
Hampshire 148.598 189.115 185.208
Hereford and Worcester 56.626 86.113 86.113
Hertfordshire 98.385 90.277 90.277
Humberside 120.425 168.855 161.491
Isle of Wight 10.469 18.749 17.711
Kent 145.007 208.483 208.483
Lancashire 176.659 264.158 253.882
Leicestershire 97.492 126.156 126.156
Lincolnshire 61.319 92.259 92.259
Norfolk 66.792 91.796 91.796
Northamptonshire 51.854 73.873 73.873
Northumberland 35.883 55.162 54.517
North Yorkshire 71.868 113.114 109.692
Nottinghamshire 134.923 175.297 163.978
Oxfordshire 44.241 58.782 57.231
Shropshire 41.054 62.122 62.122
Somerset 38.717 64.856 62.545
Staffordshire 100.076 157.551 151.686
Suffolk 47.299 76.300 72.726
Surrey 72.258 73.552 70.401
Warwickshire 43.337 60.779 60.779
West Sussex 46.593 60.568 60.568
Wiltshire 46.677 83.051 83.051
METROPOLITAN COUNTIES
Greater Manchester 106.147 98.732
Merseyside 74.087 68.398
South Yorkshire 72.294 67.192
Tyne and Wear 68.152 64.207
West Midlands 79.543 68.902
West Yorkshire 95.435 90.870
Greater London Council 48.278 13.323
Inner London Education Authority 5.517
Metropolitan Police 99.221 99.222
SHIRE DISTRICTS
Avon
Bath 8.161 4.084 4.084
Bristol 32.766 19.007 18.466
Estimated 1981–82 outturn prices
1980–81 Col (1) 1981–82 Col (2) 1981–82 with holdback Col (3)
£ million £ million £ million
Kingswood 10.413 2.677 2.677
Northavon 11.001 2.961 2.961
Wansdyke 8.364 2.467 2.467
Woodspring 16.411 5.343 5.282
Bedfordshire
North Bedfordshire 9.088 3.567 3.567
Luton 5.294 5.449 5.449
Mid Bedfordshire 9.951 2.376 2.376
South Bedfordshire 4.090 2.942 2.942
Berkshire
Bracknell 4.067 1.800 1.754
Newbury 8.965 3.917 3.917
Reading 4.695 4.017 3.454
Slough 3.713 3.028 3.028
Windsor and Maidenhead 5.105 4.230 4.230
Wokingham 8.452 4.004 4.004
Buckinghamshire
Aylesbury Vale 8.215 3.074 3.074
South Bucks 2.335 1.790 1.790
Chiltern 3.573 2.440 2.440
Milton Keynes 8.855 2.752 2.752
Wycombe 4.955 2.964 2.964
Cambridgeshire
Cambridge 2.935 3.070 3.070
East Cambridgeshire 6.235 1.344 1.344
Fenland 7.382 2.135 2.135
Huntingdon 13.431 3.377 3.377
Peterborough 10.429 4.385 3.981
South Cambridgeshire 7.987 2.489 2.489
Cheshire
Chester 8.906 3.650 3.375
Congleton 8.550 2.067 2.067
Crewe and Nantwich 11.898 4.566 4.566
Ellesmere Port and Neston 2.431 2.202 1.960
Halton 10.985 4.283 4.132
Macclesfield 12.804 4.844 4.844
Vale Royal 10.715 3.300 3.300
Warrington 15.063 4.701 4.701
Cleveland
Hartlepool 12.797 4.453 4.354
Langbaurgh 12.633 5.494 4.877
Middlesbrough 21.595 9.811 9.562
Stockton-on-Tees 12.052 5.509 5.005
Cornwall
Caradon 8.005 2.252 2.252
Carrick 7.632 3.113 3.113
Kerrier 9.512 2.793 2.793
North Cornwall 7.413 2.351 2.268
Penwith 6.211 2.555 2.555
Restormel 6.979 2.320 2.320
Cumbria
Allerdale 12.973 3.655 3.655
Barrow in Furness 10.342 3.230 3.230
Carlisle 11.877 3.501 3.273
Copeland 9.500 2.710 2.710
Eden 5.328 1.331 1.331
South Lakeland 10.926 3.704 3.704
Derbyshire
Amber Valley 11.662 3.913 3.913
Bolsover 10.020 2.811 2.761
Chesterfield 10.603 3.540 3.540
Estimated 1981–82 outturn prices
1980–81 Col (1) 1981–82 Col (2) 1981–82 with holdback Col (3)
£ million £ million £ million
Derby 18.882 6.849 6.849
Erewash 11.416 3.671 3.671
High Peak 8.633 2.795 2.795
North East Derbyshire 12.426 3.429 3.394
South Derbyshire 3.654 1.446 1.446
West Derbyshire 7.738 2.473 2.473
Devon
East Devon 10.797 3.920 3.920
Exeter 6.461 2.930 2.930
North Devon 9.212 2.997 2.941
Plymouth 25.958 9.635 9.635
South Hams 7.036 2.778 2.778
Teignbridge 10.609 3.782 3.782
Mid Devon 6.881 1.648 1.648
Torbay 7.304 4.527 4.333
Torridge 6.654 2.047 2.036
West Devon 5.284 1.481 1.481
Dorset
Bournemouth 7.999 6.416 6.416
Christchurch 2.259 1.259 1.259
North Dorset 5.829 1.195 1.195
Poole 6.594 4.344 4.344
Purbeck 3.345 1.192 1.192
West Dorset 9.084 2.570 2.570
Weymouth and Portland 7.019 2.337 2.337
Wimborne 6.043 2.324 2.324
Durham
Chester-le-Street 7.387 2.195 2.148
Darlington 9.636 3.946 3.946
Derwentside 11.654 3.792 3.581
Durham 11.792 3.577 3.532
Easington 17.343 4.951 4.927
Sedgefield 14.803 5.441 5.307
Teesdale 3.403 0.714 0.708
Wear Valley 10.211 3.398 3.398
East Sussex
Brighton 10.124 7.681 7.681
Eastbourne 3.484 3.758 3.693
Hastings 6.964 3.756 3.756
Hove 4.964 4.200 4.200
Lewes 5.688 3.133 3.133
Rother 5.896 3.345 3.345
Wealden 12.116 3.638 3.638
Essex
Basildon 10.166 6.291 5.793
Braintree 9.446 3.316 3.316
Brentwood 2.852 2.129 2.129
Castle Point 8.163 2.744 2.744
Chelmsford 7.604 2.878 2.878
Colchester 11.592 3.400 3.400
Epping Forest 6.302 3.012 3.012
Harlow 3.903 1.704 1.286
Maldon 2.911 1.375 1.375
Rochford 5.708 2.633 2.633
Southend-on-Sea 7.749 7.715 7.715
Tendring 9.718 4.424 4.424
Thurrock 4.758 3.659 3.659
Uttlesford 3.929 2.144 2.144
Gloucestershire
Cheltenham 4.624 2.965 2.965
Cotswold 6.428 2.315 2.315
Forest of Dean 8.883 2.197 2.197
Gloucester 7.063 2.465 2.465
Stroud 10.377 2.650 2.650
Tewkesbury 6.722 1.978 1.978
Estimated 1981–82 outturn prices
1980–81 Col (1) 1981–82 Col (2) 1981–82 with holdback Col (3)
£ million £ million £ million
Hampshire
Basingstoke and Deane 9.826 2.972 2.972
East Hampshire 7.794 3.498 3.498
Eastleigh 5.986 2.207 2.207
Fareham 8.334 3.167 3.167
Gosport 8.130 2.938 2.938
Hart 7.575 2.238 2.114
Havant 11.179 4.450 4.450
New Forest 8.340 4.369 4.369
Portsmouth 17.321 9.873 9.873
Rushmoor 6.657 3.322 3.322
Southampton 15.964 8.481 8.481
Test Valley 7.877 2.697 2.697
Winchester 7.144 2.770 2.770
Hereford and Worcester
Bromsgrove 6.845 2.239 2.239
Hereford 3.574 1.004 1.004
Leominster 4.746 1.107 1.107
Malvern Hills 9.353 2.604 2.604
Redditch 4.172 2.038 1.994
South Herefordshire 5.727 1.381 1.381
Worcester 3.402 1.883 1.668
Wychavon 7.371 2.884 2.884
Wyre Forest 7.959 3.519 3.246
Hertfordshire
Broxbourne 5.322 3.565 3.565
Dacorum 5.771 2.706 2.706
East Hertfordshire 7.682 3.123 3.123
Hertsmere 3.609 2.776 2.776
North Hertfordshire 3.943 2.212 2.212
St. Albans 5.512 2.975 2.975
Stevenage 2.802 1.360 1.360
Three Rivers 4.463 2.492 2.492
Watford 3.049 3.319 3.169
Welwyn Hatfield 3.269 1.701 1.701
Humberside
Beverley 11.796 3.026 3.026
Boothferry 8.309 2.591 2.488
Cleethorpes 6.877 2.673 2.572
Glanford 6.339 1.874 1.718
Great Grimsby 9.019 3.877 3.746
Holderness 5.292 1.427 1.413
Kingston upon Hull 34.092 13.308 12.742
East Yorkshire 10.098 2.994 2.930
Scunthorpe 4.671 3.119 2.885
Isle of Wight
Medina 7.413 2.407 2.382
South Wight 5.582 1.963 1.963
Kent
Ashford 7.556 3.033 3.033
Canterbury 12.567 4.807 4.807
Dartford 7.956 3.685 3.635
Dover 11.670 4.716 4.716
Gillingham 9.622 2.759 2.759
Gravesham 8.591 3.464 3.464
Maidstone 12.599 4.582 4.582
Rochester upon Medway 10.138 5.390 5.390
Sevenoaks 11.462 3.527 3.527
Shepway 7.602 3.693 3.693
Swale 11.958 4.158 4.158
Thanet 12.659 6.437 6.437
Tonbridge and Mallins 8.497 2.571 2.571
Tunbridge Wells 9.647 3.099 3.003
Lancashire
Blackburn 19.730 9.099 8.913
Blackpool 14.497 7.158 7.084
Estimated 1981–82 outturn prices
1980–81 Col (1) 1981–82 Col (2) 1981–82 with holdback Col (3)
£ million £ million £ million
Burnley 13.295 5.329 5.126
Chorley 10.875 3.240 3.142
Fylde 6.738 2.584 2.584
Hyndburn 11.150 4.068 3.951
Lancaster 15.113 5.288 5.288
Pendle 13.054 4.591 4.479
Preston 12.757 5.487 5.487
Ribble Valley 6.345 1.899 1.881
Rossendale 9.723 3.300 3.300
South Ribble 11.873 3.050 3.050
West Lancashire 11.134 3.976 3.976
Wyre 11.123 3.720 3.685
Leicestershire
Blaby 7.716 2.000 2.000
Charnwood 9.587 3.854 3.854
Harborough 5.711 1.880 1.880
Hinckley and Bosworth 7.446 2.252 2.252
Leicester 20.184 12.902 12.221
Melton 4.103 1.232 1.232
North West Leicestershire 6.855 2.141 2.014
Oadby and Wigston 4.471 1.254 1.254
Rutland 3.182 0.747 0.747
Lincolnshire
Boston 5.326 1.631 1.631
East Lindsey 10.678 3.505 3.505
Lincoln 6.750 2.337 2.337
North Kesteven 9.898 2.425 2.425
South Holland 7.456 2.612 2.612
South Kesteven 10.117 2.914 2.914
West Lindsey 9.995 2.649 2.649
Norfolk
Breckland 9.709 2.727 2.727
Broadland 10.348 2.662 2.662
Great Yarmouth 6.364 2.999 2.999
North Norfolk 7.642 2.853 2.853
Norwich 3.782 4.874 4.486
South Norfolk 10.115 3.009 3.009
King's Lynn and West Norfolk 10.860 4.014 4.014
Northamptonshire
Corby 2.720 0.933 0.933
Daventry 4.008 1.179 1.179
East Northamptonshire 6.495 1.463 1.463
Kettering 7.789 3.152 3.152
Northampton 8.541 6.679 6.679
South Northamptonshire 6.425 1.673 1.626
Wellingborough 6.061 2.047 2.047
Northumberland
Alnwick 3.943 1.252 1.252
Berwick-upon-Tweed 3.295 0.770 0.770
Blyth Valley 11.371 4.023 3.957
Castle Morpeth 5.184 1.468 1.468
Tynedale 6.749 2.149 2.149
Wansbeck 6.913 2.240 2.240
North Yorkshire
Craven 5.938 1.640 1.624
Hambleton 8.745 1.962 1.962
Harrogate 14.599 5.491 5.187
Richmondshire 5.980 1.596 1.596
Rydale 10.694 2.333 2.333
Scarborough 12.105 3.991 3.991
Selby 4.249 1.752 1.752
York 11.438 3.755 3.755
Estimated 1981–82 outturn prices
1980–81 Col (1) 1981–82 Col (2) 1981–82 with holdback Col (3)
£ million £ million £ million
Nottinghamshire
Ashfield 12.168 3.811 3.688
Bassetlaw 4.836 2.312 2.312
Broxtowe 9.622 3.579 3.579
Gedling 10.535 3.020 3.020
Mansfield 11.718 4.721 4.592
Newark 10.320 3.223 3.223
Nottingham 20.154 10.824 10.824
Rushcliffe 6.475 2.445 2.455
Oxfordshire
Cherwell 8.469 2.811 2.811
Oxford 6.065 4.335 4.335
South Oxfordshire 11.981 3.615 3.615
Vale of White Horse 4.449 1.926 1.926
West Oxfordshire 7.795 2.192 2.192
Shropshire
Bridgnorth 4.723 1.222 1.205
North Shropshire 6.254 1.448 1.448
Oswestry 3.953 0.937 0.937
Shrewsbury and Atcham 6.855 2.181 2.181
South Shropshire 4.486 1.174 1.174
The Wrekin 13.003 4.715 4.423
Somerset
Mendip 9.848 2.354 2.354
Sedgemoor 9.608 2.666 2.666
Taunton Deane 8.694 2.868 2.868
West Somerset 0"735 1.051 1.051
Yeovil 14.049 3.309 3.309
Staffordshire
Cannock Chase 7.717 2.835 2.835
East Staffordshire 7.817 2.331 2.331
Lichfield 7.574 1.955 1.955
Newcastle-under-Lyme 14.463 3.746 3.746
South Staffordshire 9.522 2.454 2.454
Stafford 9.280 3.101 2.987
Staffordshire Moorlands 11.636 2.339 2.339
Stoke-on-Trent 26.233 8.407 8.407
Tamworth 6.983 2.705 2.705
Suffolk
Babergh 6.970 2.513 2.485
Forest Heath 6.698 1.474 1.474
Ipswich 7.650 4.141 3.798
Mid Suffolk 7.755 2.082 2.082
St. Edmundsbury 7.428 2.112 2.112
Suffolk Coastal 9.177 2.997 2.997
Waveney 11.394 4.139 4.139
Surrey
Elmbridge 4.160 3.933 3.933
Epsom and Ewell 4.208 2.859 2.859
Guildford 3.585 3.542 3.542
Mole Valley 4.236 2.344 2.344
Reigate and Banstead 6.155 3.346 3.346
Runnymede 4.081 2.311 2.311
Spelthorne 2.661 2.327 2.327
Surrey Heath 3.321 1.955 1.915
Tandridge 7.239 2.130 2.130
Waverley 7.840 3.506 3.506
Woking 2.953 3.224 3.224
Warwickshire
North Warwickshire 4.997 1.880 1.852
Nuneaton and Bedworth 13.174 5.104 4.823
Rugby 7.761 2.529 2.529
Stratford on Avon 7.191 2.204 2.204
Warwick 7.646 3.827 3.827
Estimated 1981–82 outturn prices
1980–81 Col (1) 1981–82 Col (2) 1981–82 with holdback Col (3)
£ million £ million £ million
West Sussex
Adur 4.309 2.004 1.843
Aran 9.610 5.448 5.448
Chichester 7.580 3.593 3.593
Crawley 2.138 0.944 0.944
Horsham 7.648 3.027 3.027
Mid Sussex 8.773 3.744 3.744
Worthing 5.798 4.033 4.033
Wiltshire
Kennet 8.672 1.927 1.927
North Wiltshire 13.324 3.115 3.115
Salisbury 10.085 2.801 2.801
Thamesdown 15.804 5.887 5.887
West Wiltshire 10.644 2.767 2.767
METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS
Greater Manchester
Bolton 63.352 52.974 51.815
Bury 40.755 32.930 31.421
Manchester 142.342 117.139 108.585
Oldham 58.018 51.507 51.507
Rochdale 58.421 50.392 48.531
Salford 69.791 57.747 57.747
Stockport 54.877 45.163 45.163
Tameside 58.060 48.258 47.829
Trafford 34.233 28.689 28.689
Wigan 75.979 64.421 62.963
Merseyside
Knowsley 48.463 41.225 39.595
Liverpool 152.597 125.074 119.493
St. Helens 43.923 36.738 36.258
Sefton 66.816 51.685 51.685
Wirral 77.764 60.199 60.200
South Yorkshire
Barnsley 65.631 50.833 49.870
Doncaster 77.437 60.464 60.464
Rotherham 68.051 56.097 56.097
Sheffield 128.275 100.446 98.629
Tyne and Wear
Gateshead 57.274 44.500 43.440
Newcastle upon Tyne 67.551 47.697 46.517
North Tyneside 53.131 41.242 41.242
South Tyneside 50.693 41.368 41.054
Sunderland 83.365 66.698 64.431
West Midlands
Birmingham 218.572 179.574 172.402
Coventry 70.760 59.796 56.409
Dudley 42.268 35.195 35.195
Sandwell 55.704 44.863 40.675
Solihull 32.419 27.562 27.562
Walsall 51.053 42.331 38.904
Wolverhampton 53.135 42.904 39.288
West Yorkshire
Bradford 126.501 102.992 102.992
Calderdale 52.089 42.823 42.507
Kirklees 98.114 80.768 78.278
Leeds 152.653 123.467 117.307
Wakefield 70.505 58.008 58.008
London Boroughs
City of London -2.713 -38.176 -38.176
Camden 39.888 16.401 16.401
Greenwich 46.748 34.326 32.735
Hackney 52.823 43.114 41.121
Hammersmith and Fulham 42.268 34.324 34.324
Estimated 1981–82 outturn prices
1980–81 Col (1) 1981–82 Col (2) 1981–82 with holdback Col (3)
£ million £ million £ million
Islington 49.926 27.888 25.848
Kensington and Chelsea 39.995 18.669 18.670
Lambeth 65.701 55.035 51.373
Lewisham 66.034 49.772 47.623
Southwark 62.642 44.171 44.171
Tower Hamlets 39.773 27.965 25.453
Wandsworth 68.949 49.413 49.413
Westminster 48.062 -8.556 -8.556
Barking and Dagenham 33.769 26.142 26.142
Barnet 53.774 40.048 40.048
Bexley 48.819 42.609 42.609
Brent 66.139 51.721 46.776
Bromley 60.726 48.649 48.649
Croydon 66.314 51.920 51.920
Ealing 59.050 51.134 51.134
Enfield 51.805 41.393 41.393
Haringey 66.968 54.592 52.257
Harrow 37.324 31.356 31.356
Havering 49.504 42.646 42.646
Hillingdon 39.855 25.632 25.632
Hounslow 38.710 25.640 21.641
Kingston-upon-Thames 24.933 18.668 18.669
Merton 35.739 29.314 29.314
Newham 65.337 60.194 56.641
Redbridge 47.861 39.122 39.122
Richmond-upon-Thames 30.913 24.241 24.241
Sutton 33.810 27.728 27.728
Waltham Forest 58.969 53.410 50.152
Isles of Scilly 0.681 0.626 0.595
Total England 9,763 9,014 8,703