§ Mr. Kaufmanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those local authorities whose expenditure guidance for 1983–84 will be greater than the provisional guidance issued to local authorities in July 1982; and, for each authority, what changes in principles determined under part II of the Local Government Finance Act 1982 have taken place between July and December 1982 to cause these changes in expenditure guidance.
§ Mr. King[pursuant to his reply, 17 January 1983, c. 78]: The authorities are shown in the following list. The principles were determined in December, and are defined in annex E to the rate support grant report (England) 1983–84. Some changes to the provisional figures announced in July were made in response to representations. These changes fall into five categories, summarised as follows. The list shows which categories apply to each authority.
- 1. Budgeted transfers from housing revenue account in 1982–83 are taken out of account.
- 2. No guidance is lower than the authority's minimum volume budget for 1981–82.
- 3. For authorities budgeting to spend more than 1 per cent. above the higher of GRE and guidance in 1982–83, no guidance is more than 25 per cent. above minimum volume budget for 1981–82.
- 4. For all authorities the budget figures for 1982–83 are the higher of two figures supplied in two different returns.
- 5. Errors in figures supplied by authorities have been corrected.
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Increases in Expenditure Targets Between July 1982 and the 1983–84 Settlement Authority Category of change (i) Non Metropolitan Districts Kingswood 4 Northavon 4 Woodspring 1 Mid Bedfordshire 4 South Bedfordshire 1, 4 Bracknell 1 Reading 4 Slough 2 Windsor and Maidenhead 1, 4 Wokingham 2 Ayklesbury Vale 2 South Bucks 1, 4 Chiltern 2 Milton Keynes 3 Wycombe 1 Cambridge 4 East Cambridgeshire 1 Fenland 1, 4 Peterborough 4 Congleton 1 Hartlepool 4 Middlesborough 4 Caradon 4 Carrick 2 North Cornwall 1, 4 Penwith 1, 4 Restormel 1, 4 Allerdale 4 Barrow in Furness 4 South Lakeland 1 High Peak 4 West Derbyshire 4 Exeter 1, 4 North Devon 1 South Hams 1 Torbay 1, 4 Bournemouth 1 194W
Authority Category of change North Dorset 2 Wimbourne 1, 4 Derwentside 5 Easington 4 Teesdale 4 Eastbourne 2 Hove 1, 4 Rother 4 Brentwood 1 Colchester 1 Epping Forest 1, 4 Rochford 1, 4 Thurrock 1 Cheltenham 1 Forest of Dean 4 Gloucester 1 Tewkesbury 2 Basingstoke and Deane 4 Gosport 4 Rushmoor 2 Winchester 2 Bromsgrove 4 Leominster 4 Wychavon 4 Broxbourne 2 Dacorum 1, 4 Hertsmere 1 Three Rivers 1 South Wight 1 Dartford 1, 4 Maidstone 4 Shepway 1 Tonbridge and Malling 1 Tunbridge Wells 1, 4 Rossendale 4 Charnwood 4 Harborough 1 Hinckley and Bosworth 1, 4 Lincoln 4 North Kesteven 4 Corby 3 East Northamptonshire 2 South Northamptonshire 1 Alnwick 2 Berwick-upon-Tweed 4 Blyth Valley 4 Tynedale 2 Bassetlaw 4 Mansfield 4 Rushcliffe 1 South Oxfordshire 1, 4 Vale of White Horse 1 North Shropshire 1 West Somerset 4 East Staffordshire 1, 4 Lichfleld 4 South Staffordshire 4 Staffordshire Moorlands 1, 4 Tamworth 2 Babergh 4 Forest Heath 1 Suffolk Coastal 4 Elmbridge 1 Mole Valley 4 Reigate and Banstead 2 Runnymede 1 Spelthorne 1, 4 Surrey Heath 1 Tandridge 1, 4 Waverley 1 Woking 1 Stratford on Avon 4 Adur 4 Chichester 1 Horsham 1, 4 Mid Sussex 4 Worthing 1, 4
Authority Category of change Kennet 2 North Wiltshire 4 (ii) Metropolitan Districts Bolton 4 Salford 5 Birmingham 4 Dudley 4 Bradford 4 (iii) London Boroughs Greenwich 4 Hackney 4 Hammersmith and Fulham 4 Tower Hamlets 4 Bromley 4 Havering 1, 4 Kingston-upon-Thames 1 Newham 4 Richmond-upon-Thames 4 (iv) Non Metropolitan Counties Cleveland 4 Devon 4 Isle of Wight 4 Kent 4 Norfolk 4 Suffolk 4 (v) Metropolitan Counties, GLC Tyne and Wear 4 GLC 3 Note:
For some authorities the changes are very small. The list includes all changes over £1,000.