§ Mr. Pawsey asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing how much each local authority is now spending on civil defence, how much this represents for each person in that area, and how that compares with 1980, 1975 and 1970.
§ Mr. Mayhew:Expenditure by county councils accepted for civil defence grant in 1975–76 and unaudited figures for 1980–81 are shown below. This expenditure expressed on a per capita basis is shown in brackets against each figure. I regret that comparable information for 1970–71 is not available.
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Counties 1975–76 1980–81 £ (pence> £ (pence) Avon 21,100 (2.28) 48,638 (5.26) Bedfordshire 29,759 (5.96) †70,356 (14.01) Berkshire 8,223 (1.20) †60,000 (8.79) Buckinghamshire 27,119 (5.06) 54,755 d>(10.21) Cambridgeshire 39,402 (6.80) 116,256 (20.06) Cheshire 65,715 (7.09) 144,375 (15.58) Cleveland 38,419 (6-75) 81,339 (14.30) Cornwall 18,062 (4.32) 38,095 (9.12) Cumbria 47,245 (10.05) 117,629 (25.03) Derbyshire 47,947 (5.33) 94,974 (10.57) Devon* *(—?) (—?) 111,900 (11.75) Dorset 29,708 (5-02) 53,786 (9-09) Durham 31,894 (5.28) 86,960 (1441) East Sussex 33,394 (5.10) 54,818 (8-37) Essex 61,481 (4.24) 102,482 (7.08) Gloucestershire 35,533 (7 ? 14) 83,437 (16-78) Greater London 245,669 (3.57) 475,666 (6.91) Greater Manchester 57,205 (2.16) 214,092 (8.08) Hampshire 4,797 (0.32) 73,139 (5.01) Hereford and Worcestershire 34,657 (5.60) 55,005 (8.90)
Counties 1975–76 1980–81 £ (pence £ (pence) Hertfordshire 38,210 (4.01) 72,846 (7.65) Humberside 33,529 (3 94) 131,621 (15.49) Isle of Wight 11,181 (9.69) 29,928 (25 95) Kent 64,225 (4.41) 146,832 (10.08) Lancashire 60,537 (4.41) 163,480 (11.93) Leicestershire 34,738 (4.15) †109,199 (13 05) Lincolnshire 35,781 (6 70) 79,856 (14.95) Merseyside 71,163 (4.64) 159,760 (10.43) Norfolk 25,904 (3 77) 76,116 (11.09) Northamptonshire 31,041 (5 93) 64,856 (12.39) Northumberland 23,699 (8.17) 85,838 (29 61) North Yorkshire 59,452 (8 96) 105,942 (15 97) Nottinghamshire 55,003 (5 64) 128,415 (13 18) Oxfordshire 21,084 (3 88) 38,984 (7 19) Shropshire 17,083 (4.62) 43,973 (11.90) Somerset 33,699 (8 11) 80,256 (19 31) South Yorkshire 31,842 (2.44) 79,921 (6 44) Staffordshire 48,006 (4.80) 123,844 (12 38) Suffolk 28,866 (4 83) 68,561 (11 47) Surrey 60,400 (6 07) 127,743 (12 85) Tyne and Wear 29,554 (2 55) 31,215 (2 70) Warwickshire 32,405 (6 91) 59,732 (12 73) West Midlands 75,268 (2.79) 251,090 (9.31) West Sussev 21,098 (3 27) 54,094 (8 40) West Yorkshire 80,016 (3 87) 134,234 (6 50) Wiltshire 50,243 (9 72) 117,345 (22 72) Clwyd 23,081 (5 99) 47,335 (12 29) Dyfed 28,756 (8 83) 40,598 (12 46) Gwent 42,664 (9 78) 72,699 (16 67) Gwynedd 14,052 (6 20) 30,612 (13 52) Mid Glamorgan 29,027 (5 40) 47,218 (8 78) Powys 9,068 (8 46) 26,288 (24 54) South Glamorgan 20,883 (5.34) 86,208 (22 07) West Glamorgan 25,296 (6 90) 54,262 (14 80) * Due to sale of assets the income exceeds expenditure. †Provisional.