Local Authorities (Hansard, 21 December 1983)

§ Dr. Cunningham

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will publish, for each metropolitan county and district, each non-metropolitan county, each London borough, the City of London, the Greater London council and the Inner London education authority the percentage change in (a) full-time staff and (b) part-time staff (i) between 1979 and 1983, (ii) between 1979 and 1982 and (iii) between 1982 and 1983, also showing the average figure in each category for all authorities in England;

(2) if he will publish, for each metropolitan county and district, each non-metropolitan county, each London borough, the City of London, the Greater London council and the Inner London education authority, for 1981–82 and 1983–84 (a) its net current expenditure per head, by 274W service, in cash, on each service, (b) the rank order of the authority's net current expenditure per head on each service within each authority's class, (c) the average net current expenditure per head, by service, in cash of all the authorities in each authoritity's class, (d) the percentage increase or decrease in net current expenditure per head in each service between 1981–82 and 1983–84, (e) the rank order of the authority's percentage increase in net current expenditure per head between 1981–82 and 1983–84 within each authority's class, (f) the average net current expenditure per head increase in cash of all authorities in each authority's class between 1981–82 and 1983–84, (g) the average increase in pay for all local authorities between 1981–82 and 1983–84, (h) the percentage increase in gross domestic product (in cash) between 1981–82 and 1983–84 and (i) the percentage increase in the retail price index between April 1981 and April 1983;

(3) if he will publish, for each local authority in England (a) the percentage by which its expenditure is above or below its grant-related expenditure assessment in 1983–84, (b) the rank order of spending relative to grant-related expenditure in 1983–84 within each authority's class, (c) its percentage above or below its expenditure target in 1983–84, (d) the rank order of spending relative to target in 1983–84 within each authority's class, (e) the cash growth (as a percentage) in net current expenditure between 1978–79 and 1983–84, (f) the rank order of percentage growth in net amount expenditure between 1978–79 and 1983–84 within each authority's class, (g) the cash growth (as a percentage) in net current expenditure between 1981–82 and 1983–84 and (h) the rank order of percentage growth in net current expenditure between 1981–82 and 1983–84 within each each authority's class.