§ Mr. Campbell-Savoursasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) why he has reduced the Lake District planning board's national parks supplementary grant from 22.1 per cent. in 1981–82 to 19.9 per cent. in 1982–83 of the national allocation to national park authorities;
(2) to what extent bids from each national park planning board have affected the allocation of national park supplementary grant to the Lake District planning board.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneBefore determining the annual distribution of national park supplementary grant my right hon. Friend considers the estimates submitted by all the individual national park authorities in England and the views of the Countryside Commission upon those estimates. This year he also took into account certain provisions of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
The Lake District special planning board's share of the total allocated to all seven English Authorities amounted to 20.2 per cent. in 1981–82, so that the reduction imposed for next year is only 0.3 per cent.
§ Mr. Campbell-Savoursasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what were the capital programmes for each of the national park planning boards for each of the years 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneCapital allocations under the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 have been made in respect of the two national park planning boards as follows:
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1981–82 1982–83 £ £ Lake District 130,000 89,000 Peak District 221,000 228,000 No distinction is drawn between capital and revenue expenditure in the allocation of national park supplementary grant which, as a block grant, is paid in respect of aggregate expenditure. Information on the boards' capital programmes for years prior to implementation of the 1980 Act is not therfore readily available.