§ Mr. Proctorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report the local authorities which have requested civil defence grants from his Department in the last 12 months; what figure was requested and how much was disbursed in each case; what was the total amount of grant disbursed in the last 12 months; which requests are still awaiting a decision; and for what purposes these requests were made.
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§ Mr. MayhewThe figures for the financial year 1982–83 are attached.
Grant to county councils and police authorities is paid in advance on the basis of estimates submitted, but payment for expenditure on carrier warning systems in the Metropolitan Police district is made on receipt of an invoice. No payments are outstanding. Grant to London boroughs and metropolitan districts is paid on the basis of audited claims, which in all cases are still awaited.
Grant is paid at the rate of 75 per cent. or 100 per cent. Items qualifying for 75 per cent. grant include salaries and related expenses of emergency planning teams; establishment and administration expenses; salaries of staff officers to regional police commanders — designate — and regional fire advisers—designate; training expenses; and provision of wartime headquarters and communications equipment. Items qualifying for 100 grant are development of wireless relay stations for civil defence communications and expenditure on attack and fall-out warning systems.
Grant is calculated on the receipt of estimates, 10 per cent. is retained pending receipt of an audited claim, and grant disbursed is 90 per cent. of the amount in the estimates. The total grant disbursed during the year is £7,162,124: this includes adjustments on claims for earlier years.
Following are the figures:
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Civil Defence Grant Expenditure 1982–83 Local Authority Estimates Grant Disbursed £ £ NON-METROPOLITAN COUNTIES—ENGLAND Avon 96,150 64,902 Bedfordshire 133,600 93,397 Berkshire 191,860 129,505 Buckinghamshire 105,460 71,185 Cambridgeshire 168,960 116,364 Cheshire 193,720 142,680 Cleveland 95,150 66,252 Cornwall 97,120 65,556 Cumbria 125,900 86,782 Derbyshire 99,000 85,545 Devon 211,900 143,032 Dorset 112,500 78,469 Durham 154,235 106,100 East Sussex 160,600 108,405 Essex 288,150 215,404 Gloucestershire 184,945 126,568 Hampshire 206,000 139,050 Hereford and Worcester 98,400 66,420 Hertfordshire 141,050 100,429 Humberside 168,510 114,916 Isle of Wight 46,022 31,073 Kent 326,193 234,130 Lancashire 210,515 159,389 Leicestershire 248,135 173,074 Lincolnshire 124,928 91,301 Norfolk 146,840 107,095 Northamptonshire 100,575 69,013 Northumberland 167,920 113,346 North Yorkshire 239,700 169,132 Nottinghamshire 233,717 162,957 Oxfordshire 71,000 47,925 Shropshire 75,520 50,976 Somerset 152,470 102,310 Staffordshire 211,240 149,674 Suffolk 87,855 61,607 Surrey 233,650 162,394 Warwickshire 118,380 90,106 West Sussex 93,330 62,998 Wiltshire 248,550 170,247 324W
Local Authority Estimates Grant Disbursed £ £ METROPOLITAN COUNTIES Greater Manchester 314,750 239,232 Merseyside 206,645 145,037 South Yorkshire 125,400 92,835 Tyne and Wear 102,160 70,230 West Midlands 327,005 229,841 West Yorkshire 245,900 173,644 Greater London Council 671,300 453,127 METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS Greater Manchester Bolton 3,265 — Bury 1,600 — Oldham 2,890 — Rochdale 3,970 — Salford 1,760 — Trafford 2,250 — Wigan 300 — Merseyside Knowsley 695 — Liverpool 2,477 — Sefton 1,100 Wirral 12,680 — South Yorkshire Barnsley 1,087 — Doncaster 1,738 — Rotherham 502 — Tyne and Wear Newcastle upon Tyne 1,370 — Sunderland 1,977 — West Yorkshire Bradford 854 — Calderdale 2,230 — Kirklees 1,800 — OUTER LONDON BOROUGHS Barking and Dagenham 4,915 — Barnet 2,230 — Bexley 1,599 — Brent 2,130 — Bromley 11,480 — Croydon 1,670 — Ealing 1,738 — Haringey 1,800 — Harrow 950 — Havering 3,895 — Hillingdon 3,380 — Hounslow 2,525 — Kingston upon Thames 1,800 — Merton 5,690 — Newham 1,220 — Redbridge 2,260 — Sutton 2,479 — Waltham Forest 1,357 — INNER LONDON BOROUGHS Camden 958 — Greenwich 2,204 — Hackney 1,260 — Hammersmith and Fulham 1,545 — Islington 1,173 — Kensington and Chelsea 3,170 — Lambeth 7,380 — Lewisham 1,000 — Southwark 656 — Tower Hamlets 4,050 — Wandsworth 3,995 — Westminster 1,631 — POLICE AUTHORITIES—ENGLAND Avon—Somerset 50,100 40,432 Devon—Cornwall 57,400 51,435 Hampshire 59,500 43,582
Local Authority Estimates Grant Disbursed £ £ Northumbria 59,350 45,147 Sussex 15,900 14,107 Thames Valley 55,700 45,450 Wesy Mercia 53,700 45,247 City of London 10,450 — Metropolitan Police 257,000 131,531 COUNTIES—WALES Clwyd 69,400 46,845 Dyfed 57,616 38,891 Gwent 98,600 74,205 Gwynedd 80,560 54,378 Mid Glamorgan 63,392 42,790 Powys 44,180 29,821 South Glamorgan 94,055 63,487 West Glamorgan 79,790 53,859 POLICE AUTHORITIES—WALES Dyfed—Powys 12,727 11,304 North Wales 43,727 38,443 South Wales 39,290 34,042 TOTAL 9,593,037 6,638,650