HC Deb 28 January 1983 vol 35 cc546-58W
Mr. Bob Dunn

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many home improvement grants have been approved by each local authority so far in 1982–83.

Mr. Stanley

The figures from the returns from local authorities showing the number of improvement, repairs and intermediate grants approved in the first half of 1982–83 are set out in the following table. Where no figures are shown, a return has still to be received.

Improvement, repairs and intermediate grants approved 1 April to 30 September 1982
Local authority No. of quarters covered Improvement/conversion Repairs Intermediate Total
Region 1—North excluding Cumbria
Gateshead 2 165 111 224 500
Newcastle upon Tyne 1 82 45 4 131
North Tyneside 2 444 161 26 631
South Tyneside 2 109 45 83 237
Sunderland 2 80 39 42 161
Hartlepool 2 219 104 72 395
Langbaurgh 2 148 37 15 200
Middlesbrough 2 202 299 33 534
Stockton-on-Tees 2 95 28 41 164
Chester-le-Street 1 12 6 15 33
Darlington 2 26 12 110 148
Derwentside 2 108 359 96 563
Durham 2 72 18 40 130
Easington 1 78 0 25 103
Sedgefield 1 46 2 7 55
Teesdale 2 58 80 10 148
Wear Valley 2 0 228 113 341
Alnwick 2 57 18 7 82
Berwick-upon-Tweed 2 34 48 5 87
Blyth Valley 2 69 31 6 106
Castle Morpeth 2 89 33 16 138
Tynedale 2 118 70 9 197
Wansbeck 2 39 142 5 186
Region 2—Yorks and Humberside
Barnsley 2 477 113 66 656
Doncaster 2 817 116 51 984
Rotherham 2 292 86 117 495
Sheffield 1 200 28 19 247
Bradford 2 1,268 31 147 1,446
Calderdale 2 489 346 130 965
Kirklees 2 444 368 178 990
Leeds 2 338 212 339 889
Wakefield 1 277 95 20 392
Beverley 1 58 14 0 72
Boothferry 1 46 1 11 58
Cleethorpes 2 44 79 33 156
East Yorkshire 2 47 35 5 87
Glanford 2 83 70 39 192
Great Grimsby 2 162 168 61 391
Holderness 2 68 0 7 75
Kingston upon Hull 2 291 11 26 328
Scunthorpe 2 63 39 15 117
Craven 2 113 25 9 147
Hambleton 2 22 241 38 301
Harrogate 2 93 1 43 137
Richmondshire 2 47 41 10 98
Ryedale 2 50 132 54 236
Scarborough 2 65 36 7 108
Selby 2 20 65 58 143
York 2 55 91 43 189
Region 3—East Midlands
Amber valley 2 314 217 50 581
Bolsover 2 101 113 31 245
Chesterfield 2 121 50 57 228
Derby 2 473 101 87 661
Erewash 2 88 30 27 145
High Peak 2 144 10 76 230
North East Derbyshire 2 99 1 45 145
South Derbyshire 2 37 94 48 179
West Derbyshire 2 62 92 110 264
Blaby 2 53 12 48 113
Charnwood 2 71 126 67 264
Harborough 2 13 135 46 194
Hinckley and Bosworth 2 80 0 26 106
Leicester 2 621 74 94 789
Melton 2 62 90 25 177
North West Leicestershire 1 4 10 46 60
Dadby and Wigston 2 19 16 23 58
Rutland 2 23 62 3 88

Local authority No. of quarters covered Improvement/conversion Repairs Intermediate Total
Boston 2 63 48 7 118
East Lindsey 2 90 202 18 310
Lincoln 2 22 112 16 150
North Kesteven 2 52 151 14 217
South Holland 2 64 23 17 104
South Kesteven 2 119 38 14 171
West Lindsey 2 105 358 16 479
Corby 2 12 3 10 25
Daventry 2 8 129 52 189
East Northamptonshire 2 84 1 22 107
Kettering 2 68 410 33 511
Northampton 2 85 31 14 130
South Northamptonshire 2 53 182 12 247
Wellingborough 2 94 140 23 257
Ashfield 2 136 175 51 362
Bassetlaw 1 77 19 16 112
Broxtowe 2 116 26 30 172
Gedling 2 96 27 13 136
Mansfield 2 47 10 54 111
Newark 1 78 13 14 105
Nottingham 2 519 112 36 667
Rushcliffe 2 228 107 26 361
Region 4—Eastern
Luton 2 92 173 141 406
Mid Bedfordshire 2 29 78 48 155
North Bedfordshire 2 23 21 20 64
South Bedfordshire 2 30 50 7 87
Aylesbury Vale 2 99 200 26 325
Chiltern 2 33 21 11 65
Milton Keynes 2 97 161 9 267
South Bucks 2 19 15 4 38
Wycombe 2 165 11 14 190
Cambridge 2 108 55 16 179
East Cambridgeshire 2 40 97 18 155
Fenland 2 52 143 28 223
Huntingdon 2 106 130 6 242
Peterborough 2 140 347 61 548
South Cambridgeshire 2 23 0 21 44
Basildon 2 33 9 17 59
Braintree 1 19 37 15 71
Brentwood 2 23 59 9 91
Castle Point 0 .. .. .. ..
Chelmsford 1 11 0 19 30
Colchester 2 53 190 51 294
Epping Forest 2 153 13 1 167
Harlow 2 5 1 1 7
Maldon 2 20 0 56 76
Rochford 2 31 42 15 88
Southend-on-Sea 2 368 1 87 456
Tendring 2 85 58 43 186
Thurrock 2 92 13 15 120
Uttlesford 2 38 34 5 77
Broxbourne 1 28 10 1 39
Dacorum 2 31 12 7 50
East Hertfordshire 0 .. .. .. ..
Hertsmere 2 16 8 2 26
North Hertfordshire 2 49 38 14 101
St. Albans 2 116 1 9 126
Stevenage 2 7 1 0 8
Three Rivers 2 21 10 8 39
Watford 2 25 60 24 109
Welwyn Hatfield 2 11 8 5 24
Breckland 2 144 92 9 245
Broadland 2 226 5 7 238
Great Yarmouth 2 9 24 59 92
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk 2 190 38 44 272
North Norfolk 2 17 1 115 133
Norwich 2 91 130 7 228
South Norfolk 2 71 0 24 95
Babergh 2 33 102 15 155
Forest Heath 2 17 8 8 38
Ipswich 2 170 40 14 224
Mid Suffolk 2 32 14 3 49
St. Edmundsbury 2 43 180 3 226
Suffolk Coastal 2 88 157 21 266

Local authority No. of quarters covered Improvement/conversion Repairs Intermediate Total
Waveney 2 135 377 89 601
Region 5—Greater London
Greater London Council 2 136 215 9 360
City of London 2 0 0 0 0
Barking and Dagenham 2 24 119 162 305
Barnet 2 41 81 18 140
Bexley 2 98 221 45 364
Brent 1 51 27 21 99
Bromley 1 55 96 9 160
Camden 1 4 98 36 138
Croydon 0 — — — —
Ealing 2 218 121 33 372
Enfield 2 158 280 9 447
Greenwich 2 17 36 109 162
Hackney 2 51 58 185 294
Hammersmith and Fulham 2 277 244 73 594
Haringey 2 276 271 32 579
Harrow 1 12 8 7 27
Havering 2 31 2 62 95
Hillingdon 0 — — — —
Hounslow 2 193 18 74 285
Islington 2 22 35 105 162
Kensington and Chelsea 1 16 8 32 56
Kingston upon Thames 2 55 152 27 234
Lambeth 1 24 28 21 73
Lewisham 2 40 231 85 356
Merton 2 50 65 85 200
Newham 1 112 51 50 213
Redbridge 2 511 193 44 748
Richmond upon Thames 2 63 15 72 150
Southwark 1 29 4 46 79
Sutton 2 46 140 58 244
Tower Hamlets 2 17 20 10 47
Waltham Forest 1 52 84 39 175
Wandsworth 2 41 306 198 545
Westminster 2 149 25 47 221
Region 6—South Eastern
Bracknell 2 8 0 10 18
Newbury 2 71 136 10 217
Reading 2 30 171 65 266
Slough 2 17 10 22 49
Windsor and Maidenhead 2 78 77 2 157
Wokingham 2 42 35 7 84
Brighton 1 48 40 3 91
Eastbourne 2 32 76 8 116
Hastings 2 107 629 70 806
Hove 2 0 31 24 55
Lewes 2 39 107 14 160
Rother 2 22 63 35 120
Wealden 2 22 78 51 151
Basingstoke and Deane 2 79 112 2 193
East Hampshire 2 17 44 57 118
Eastleigh 2 79 322 15 416
Fareham 2 36 25 18 79
Gosport 2 43 80 35 158
Hart 2 43 85 9 137
Havant 2 37 2 14 53
New Forest 2 128 130 28 286
Portsmouth 2 107 84 78 269
Rushmoor 2 11 51 14 76
Southampton 2 121 326 41 488
Test Valley 2 45 144 13 202
Winchester 2 40 109 14 163
Medina 2 58 9 39 106
South Wight 2 10 69 21 100
Ashford 2 6 30 39 75
Canterbury 2 35 27 26 88
Dartford 2 28 104 50 182
Dover 2 104 57 24 185
Gillingham 2 44 210 85 339
Gravesham 1 68 46 8 122
Maidstone 2 79 92 5 176
Rochester upon Medway 2 109 144 41 294
Sevenoaks 2 49 94 10 153

Local authority No. of quarters covered Improvement/conversion Repairs Intermediate Total
Shepway 2 41 137 34 212
Swale 2 27 15 155 197
Thanet 2 22 107 90 219
Tonbridge and Malling 2 60 15 5 80
Tunbridge Wells 2 21 21 60 102
Cherwell 2 84 49 15 148
Oxford 2 20 168 70 258
South Oxfordshire 2 52 54 7 113
Vale of White Horse 2 28 9 10 47
West Oxfordshire 1 16 16 10 42
Elmbridge 2 25 29 10 64
Epsom and Ewell 0 .. .. .. ..
Guildford 2 71 256 23 350
Mole Valley 1 16 41 17 74
Reigate and Banstead 2 38 11 3 52
Runnymede 2 47 107 25 179
Spelthorne 2 110 71 4 185
Surrey Heath 2 24 30 5 59
Tandridge 2 69 130 5 204
Waverley 2 60 289 12 361
Woking 2 32 67 6 105
Adur 2 39 21 10 70
Arun 2 23 31 9 63
Chichester 2 39 47 9 95
Crawley 2 14 7 2 23
Horsham 2 50 172 13 235
Mid Sussex 2 37 58 5 100
Worthing 2 28 18 9 55
Region 7—South West
Bath 2 46 13 28 87
Bristol 2 400 297 77 774
Kingswood 1 74 11 5 90
Northavon 2 91 8 22 121
Wansdyke 2 77 4 9 90
Woodspring 1 8 58 10 76
Caradon 2 37 125 46 208
Carrick 1 35 18 2 55
Kerrier 2 40 211 49 300
North Cornwall 2 54 143 36 233
Penwith 2 45 51 34 130
Restormel 2 141 121 6 268
Isles of Scilly 2 3 2 2 7
East Devon 2 44 131 16 191
Exeter 2 297 23 53 373
Mid Devon 2 74 223 17 314
North Devon 2 7 64 34 105
Plymouth 2 259 0 23 282
South Hams 2 11 132 31 174
Teignbridge 2 45 101 51 197
Torbay 2 156 232 18 406
Torridge 2 89 122 16 227
West Devon 2 68 108 22 198
Bournemouth 1 5 10 5 20
Christchurch 2 18 29 5 52
North Dorset 2 24 46 10 80
Poole 2 28 72 12 112
Purbeck 0 .. .. .. ..
West Dorset 2 51 76 4 131
Weymouth and Portland 2 12 208 28 248
Wimbome 2 8 25 16 49
Cheltenham 0 .. .. .. ..
Cotswold 2 88 196 13 297
Forest of Dean 0 .. .. .. ..
Gloucester 1 61 22 18 101
Stroud 2 89 233 17 339
Tewkesbury 2 99 103 5 207
Mendip 2 229 64 28 321
Sedgemoor 2 221 19 5 245
Taunton Deane 2 48 57 14 119
West Somerset 2 19 32 12 63
Yeovil 2 144 89 27 260
Kennet 2 136 31 12 179
North Wiltshire 2 132 65 21 218
Salisbury 2 96 17 20 133
Thamesdown 1 67 4 106 177

Local authority No. of quarters covered Improvement/conversion Repairs Intermediate Total
West Wiltshire 2 149 1 30 180
Region 8—West Midlands
Birmingham 2 926 1,539 104 2,569
Coventry 2 279 319 111 709
Dudley 2 234 30 20 284
Sandwell 2 114 215 257 586
Solihull 2 52 24 18 94
Walsall 1 60 2 17 79
Wolverhampton 1 188 43 3 234
Bromsgrove 2 29 89 17 135
Hereford 2 28 32 14 74
Leominster 2 53 97 21 171
Malvern Hills 2 78 73 15 166
Redditch 2 11 37 12 60
South Herefordshire 2 49 108 24 181
Worcester 2 6 53 58 117
Wychavon 2 76 82 12 170
Wyre Forest 2 97 45 16 158
Bridgnorth 2 32 34 39 105
North Shropshire 2 80 126 21 227
Oswestry 2 62 16 13 91
Shrewsbury and Atcham 1 21 0 8 29
South Shropshire 2 5 2 43 50
The Wrekin 2 93 30 5 128
Cannock Chase 2 23 8 15 46
East Staffordshire 2 205 96 59 360
Lichfield 2 71 5 5 81
Newcastle-under-Lyme 2 74 0 1 75
South Staffordshire 2 24 2 15 41
Stafford 2 32 9 12 53
Staffordshire Moorlands 2 72 33 57 162
Stoke-on-Trent 2 241 9 44 294
Tamworth 2 34 17 6 57
North Warwickshire 2 55 3 8 66
Nuneaton and Bedworth 2 57 16 30 103
Rugby 2 162 33 9 204
Stratford-on-Avon 2 51 42 2 95
Warwick 2 63 114 8 185
Region 9—North West including Cumbria
Bolton 2 211 37 168 416
Bury 2 234 69 83 386
Manchester 0 .. .. .. ..
Oldham 2 488 72 82 642
Rochdale 1 142 26 25 193
Salford 2 249 72 71 392
Stockport 2 338 134 16 488
Tameside 2 220 82 96 398
Trafford 2 114 40 19 173
Wigan 2 356 95 77 528
Knowsley 2 76 77 4 157
Liverpool 2 886 40 30 956
St. Helens 2 428 156 13 597
Sefton 2 174 300 9 483
Wirral 2 993 48 51 1092
Chester 1 92 5 16 113
Congleton 2 78 82 20 180
Crewe and Nantwich 2 10 3 87 100
Ellesmore Port and Neston 2 24 10 23 57
Halton 2 117 135 13 265
Macclesfield 2 63 60 33 156
Vale Royal 2 91 99 54 244
Warrington 2 134 100 48 282
Allerdale 2 98 446 37 581
Barrow-in-Furness 1 17 17 14 48
Carlisle 2 124 9 25 158
Copeland 2 52 100 75 227
Eden 2 106 89 57 252
South Lakeland 2 30 63 18 111
Blackburn 2 369 242 162 773
Blackpool 2 191 75 56 322
Burnley 2 239 220 97 556
Chorley 2 80 40 45 165
Fylde 2 45 65 15 125
Hyndburn 1 56 35 20 111

Local authority No. of quarters covered Improvement/conversion Repairs Intermediate Total
Lancaster 2 136 79 35 250
Pendle 2 145 186 69 400
Preston 2 251 44 19 314
Ribble Valley 2 89 0 35 124
Rossendale 2 80 94 45 219
South Ribble 2 104 84 19 207
West Lancashire 2 85 48 40 173
Wyre 2 26 2 16 44