§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the allocations of derelict land grant for the current and previous financial year to the counties of England and Wales.
§ Mr. Giles ShawDetails for each county in England of the aggregate amount of the allocations made so far to county and district council's for grant-aided expenditure in the current financial year are set out in the table.
Under the expenditure control arrangements for 1981–82 provision for derelict land reclamation expenditure was included in the Other Environmental Services block allocations. The figures in the table for that year detail the amount which local authorites in each county spent on approved reclamation schemes out of these allocations.
County Expenditure Allocations 1981–82 1982–83 £000 £000 Avon nil 89 Bedfordshire nil nil Buckinghamshire nil nil Cambridgeshire nil nil Cheshire 4,068 4,049 Cleveland 360 811 Cornwall 1 214 Cumbria 175 2,312 Derbyshire 754 1,833 Devon 306 176 Dorset 1 nil Durham 2,251 2,377 East Sussex 12 nil Essex nil nil Gloucestershire nil 21 Greater London 3,140 4,112 Greater Manchester 3,902 4,331 Hampshire nil nil Hereford and Worcester 1 nil Hertfordshire nil nil Humberside 640 644 Isle of Wight nil nil Kent 8 nil Lancashire 2,231 2,675 Leicestershire 10 78 Lincolnshire 1 nil Merseyside 1,495 1,818 Norfolk 23 nil Northamptonshire 809 2,750 Northumberland 702 815 North Yorkshire 1 152 Nottinghamshire 705 1,939 Oxfordshire 88 nil Salop 183 87 Somerset 5 nil South Yorkshire 1,022 776 Staffordshire 1,729 2,865 Suffolk 13 nil Surrey nil nil Tyne and Wear 1,946 2,398 Warwickshire 2 100 West Midlands 1,707 2,356 West Sussex nil nil West Yorkshire 1,316 1,488 Wiltshire nil nil In Wales the reclamation of derelict land, which is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of 818W State for Wales, is carried out by the Welsh Development Agency and the information required for counties in Wales can be obtained direct from them.