HC Deb 09 February 1984 vol 53 cc771-9W
Dr. Cunningham

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the percentage change in the targets set for each local authority between (a) 1982–83 and 1984–85 and (b) 1983–84 and 1984–85.

Mr. Patrick Jenkin

The information is as follows:

Percentage change in target between 1982–83 and 1984–85 Percentage change in target between 1983–84 and 1984–85
SHIRE COUNTIES
Avon 12.0 1.5
Bedfordshire 11.4 1.5
Berkshire 14.5 1.5
Buckinghamshire 17.2 4.8
Cambridgeshire 14.6 4.0
Cheshire 9.2 1.5
Cleveland 8.7 1.5
Cornwall 12.7 4.0
Cumbria 7.0 1.5
Derbyshire 12.6 1.8
Devon 13.0 4.0
Dorset 4.7 2.0
Durham 5.9 1.5
East Sussex 7.9 2.0
Essex 14.2 2.0
Gloucestershire 9.9 1.5
Hampshire 10.0 1.8
Hereford and Worcester 12.5 2.0
Hertfordshire 6.7 1.5
Humberside 12.2 1.5
Isle of Wight 14.0 2.5
Kent 11.2 3.9
Lancashire 12.0 2.7
Leicestershire 17.0 2.0
Lincolnshire 12.0 2.0
Norfolk 11.2 2.4
Northamptonshire 18.0 2.0
Northumberland 6.1 1.5
North Yorkshire 8.9 1.5
Nottinghamshire 12.6 1.5
Oxfordshire 7.4 1.5
Shropshire 13.4 2.0
Somerset 11.4 1.5
Staffordshire 10.0 1.5
Suffolk 13.1 1.8
Surrey 10.8 3.5
Warwickshire 13.4 1.8
West Sussex 11.5 2.0
Wiltshire 11.7 2.0

Percentage change in target between 1982–83 and 1984–85 Percentage change in target between 1983–84 and 1984–85
GREATER LONDON
City of London 5.9 1.5
Camden 5.4 1.5
Greenwich 21.0 12.6
Hackney 25.0 1.5
Hammersmith and Fulham 15.5 1.5
Islington 7.4 2.2
Kensington and Chelsea 6.3 0.5
Lambeth 6.8 1.9
Lewisham 5.9 1.5
Southwark 13.3 8.6
Tower Hamlets 13.3 1.5
Wandsworth 4.2 -0.1
Westminster 10.8 1.5
Barking and Dagenham 5.9 1.5
Barnet 6.9 1.5
Bexley 5.9 1.5
Brent 12.7 1.5
Bromley 4.8 1.9
Croydon 5.3 2.0
Ealing 7.6 1.5
Enfield 5.9 1.5
Haringey 14.5 1.5
Harrow 8.8 1.5
Havering 5.9 1.5
Hillingdon 5.9 1.5
Hounslow 6.5 1.5
Kingston-upon-Thames 4.2 1.5
Merton 5.3 1.9
Newham 11.4 1.5
Redbridge 6.2 —
Richmond-upon-Thames 4.9 1.5
Sutton 7.1 1.5
Waltham Forest 13.3 1.5
GLC 26.4 -0.8
ILEA 17.3 5.0
GREATER MANCHESTER
Bolton 12.2 2.1
Bury 8.9 1.5
Manchester 5.9 1.5
Oldham 10.8 2.2
Rochdale 11.9 1.5
Salford 5.9 1.5
Stockport 8.7 1.5
Tameside 7.5 1.5
Trafford 7.8 1.9
Wigan 7.2 1.5
MERSEYSIDE
Knowsley 7.9 1.5
Liverpool 6.4 1.5
St. Helens 5.9 1.5
Sefton 7.7 3.2
Wirral 7.3 1.5
SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Barnsley 5.9 1.5
Doncaster 5.9 1.5
Rotherham 4.9 1.5
Sheffield 9.1 1.5
TYNE AND WEAR
Gateshead 9.8 1.5
Newcastle upon Tyne 9.9 1.5
North Tyneside 12.7 1.5
South Tyneside 5.9 1.5

Percentage change in target between 1982–83 and 1984–85 Percentage change in target between 1983–84 and 1984–85
Sunderland 6.2 1.5
WEST MIDLANDS
Birmingham 6.5 -.1
Coventry 11.4 1.5
Dudley 14.0 3.1
Sandwell 8.4 2.0
Solihull 9.8 2.0
Walsall 13.3 1.5
Wolverhampton 9.0 1.9
WEST YORKSHIRE
Bradford 12.4 1.5
Calderdale 8.7 1.5
Kirklees 12.4 2.3
Leeds 13.1 1.5
Wakefield 4.8 1.5
METROPOLITAN COUNTIES
Greater Manchester 9.6 1.5
Merseyside 18.6 1.6
South Yorkshire 9.4 1.5
Tyne and Wear 11.1 1.5
West Midlands 16.6 1.5
West Yorkshire 17.2 1.5
AVON
Bath -1.8 -.1
Bristol 4.2 -.1
Kingswood 41.1 -1.
Northavon 13.3 2.5
Wansdyke 6.0 3.6
Woodspring 10.1 1.5
BEDFORDSHIRE
North Bedfordshire 5.7 2.0
Luton 9.2 2.0
Mid Bedfordshire 9.2 1.9
South Bedfordshire 4.7 .5
BERKSHIRE
Bracknell 9.6 .7
Newbury 12.5 1.4
Reading 6.0 1.5
Slough -1.6 -.1
Windsor and Maidenhead 25.1 10.2
Wokingham -3.3 .7
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Aylesbury Vale -2.7 2.4
South Bucks 5.4 5.7
Chiltern -.9 3.3
Milton Keynes 20.3 -.1
Wycombe 7.3 1.7
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Cambridge 10.9 1.9
East Cambridgeshire 15.5 1.5
Fenland 6.8 2.4
Huntingdon 5.4 2.0
Peterborough 4.5 1.5
South Cambridgeshire 10.1 1.9
CHESHIRE
Chester 5.9 1.5
Congleton 5.9 1.5
Crewe and Nantwich 4.5 .3
Ellesmere Port and Neston 10.0 2.3
Halton 4.3 1.5
Macclesfield 5.1 1.7
Vale Royal 5.9 1.5
Warrington 7.2 1.5

Percentage change in target between 1982–83 and 1984–85 Percentage change in target between 1983–84 and 1984–85
CLEVELAND
Hartlepool 7.9 1.5
Langbaurgh 13.4 -.1
Middlesborough 12.0 1.5
Stockton-on-Tees 4.8 1.5
CORNWALL
Caradon 3.6 2.0
Carrick .4 -.1
Kerrier 2.2 .5
North Cornwall 20.3 3.9
Penwith 4.2 -.1
Restormel 6.6 -.1
CUMBRIA
Allerdale 4.8 1.9
Barrow in Furness 6.5 3.0
Carlisle 7.8 1.5
Copeland 5.9 1.5
Eden -.3 -.1
South Lakeland 12.2 .6
DERBYSHIRE
Amber Valley 6.8 2.0
Bolsover 4.6 .3
Chesterfield 12.8 1.5
Derby 6.7 1.8
Erewash 9.4 1.5
High Peak 4.8 1.5
North East Derbyshire 5.0 1.5
South Derbyshire 9.0 1.9
West Derbyshire 17.4 .9
DEVON
East Devon 4.3 1.9
Exeter 20.2 7.6
North Devon 7.2 2.8
Plymouth 13.5 4.3
South Hams 10.7 4.5
Teignbridge 5.2 2.0
Mid Devon 29.1 2.0
Torbay 22.5 2.0
Torridge 7.7 -.0
West Devon 9.5 2.2
DORSET
Bournemouth 13.1 3.2
Christchurch 17.0 2.9
North Dorset 2.2 7.6
Poole 7.5 4.0
Purbeck 3.2 -.1
West Dorset 8.7 5.2
Weymouth and Portland 12.0 4.0
Wimborne 18.9 3.6
DURHAM
Chester-le-Street 13.1 1.5
Darlington 5.9 1.5
Derwentside 5.1 1.5
Durham 4.2 -.1
Easington 13.3 1.5
Sedgefield 4.3 1.5
Teesdale 11.5 2.8
Wear Valley 4.6 1.5
EAST SUSSEX
Brighton 13.9 1.5
Eastbourne 3.7 1.5
Hastings 18.0 5.9
Hove 17.3 3.7
Lewes 8.7 2.2

Percentage change in target between 1982–83 and 1984–85 Percentage change in target between 1983–84 and 1984–85
Rother 5.4 2.0
Wealden 3.6 2.0
ESSEX
Basildon 11.4 2.8
Braintree 5.4 2.4
Brentwood 14.7 6.8
Castle Point 4.7 2.0
Chelmsford 13.6 9.9
Colchester 18.4 1.1
Epping Forest 19.0 2.3
Harlow 18.3 1.7
Maldon 5.3 2.2
Rochford 10.9 4.5
Southend-on-Sea 4.7 .4
Tendring 12.4 1.7
Thurrock 15.5 1.5
Uttlesford 10.2 -.0
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Cheltenham 20.7 4.2
Cotswold 5.5 2.2
Forest of Dean 24.2 2.0
Gloucester 8.6 2.0
Stroud 5.4 2.0
Tewkesbury -5.1 -.1
HAMPSHIRE
Basingstoke and Dean .8 -.1
East Hampshire 19.4 2.0
Eastleigh 5.4 2.0
Fareham 4.9 1.5
Gosport 12.4 1.9
Hart 5.2 1.9
Havant 5.1 6.3
New Forest 5.4 2.1
Portsmouth 12.1 1.5
Rushmoor 3.7 1.5
Southampton 3.4 1.6
Test Valley 6.0 3.2
Winchester -2.9 1.2
HEREFORD AND WORCESTER
Bromsgrove -1.2 1.2
Hereford 20.5 1.8
Leominster 19.8 1.7
Malvern Hills 16.6 5.7
Redditch 10.1 1.3
South Herefordshire 5.3 2.8
Worcester 9.5 2.3
Wychavon 4.5 1.5
Wyre Forest 5.9 1.5
HERTFORDSHIRE
Broxbourne 11.1 9.0
Dacorum 9.1 .6
East Hertfordshire 9.6 1.5
Hertsmere 5.9 1.5
North Hertfordshire 18.9 1.9
St. Albans 9.5 1.9
Stevenage 8.0 1.5
Three Rivers 3.4 -.1
Watford 5.9 1.5
Welwyn Hatfield 5.1 1.5
HUMBERSIDE
Beverley 13.9 2.0
Boothferry 4.9 1.5
Cleethorpes 8.8 1.5
Glanford 7.3 2.8
Great Grimsby 19.8 6.5
Holderness 9.6 3.6
Kingston upon Hull 12.8 1.5

Percentage change in target between 1982–83 and 1984–85 Percentage change in target between 1983–84 and 1984–85
East Yorkshire 10.9 1.5
Scunthorpe 9.2 1.5
ISLE OF WIGHT
Medina 8.5 2.0
South Wight 5.8 1.5
KENT
Ashford 9.7 2.0
Canterbury 4.8 1.5
Dartford 5.4 1.0
Dover 5.8 1.5
Gillingham 8.7 2.6
Gravesham 13.5 2.0
Maidstone 4.4 2.0
Rochester upon Medway .2 2.0
Sevenoaks .3 2.0
Shepway 6.8 2.4
Swale 11.5 1.8
Thanet 5.9 1.5
Tonbridge and Malling 6.8 2.4
Tunbridge Wells 9.4 .3
LANCASHIRE
Blackburn 13.3 1.5
Blackpool 14.5 5.5
Burnley 13.6 1.5
Chorley 21.6 4.7
Fylde 11.9 6.6
Hyndburn 6.5 1.5
Lancaster 5.9 1.5
Pendle 5.9 1.5
Preston 13.7 1.5
Ribble Valley 5.9 1.5
Rossendale 11.5 1.5
South Ribble 5.6 9.5
West Lancashire 3.7 .4
Wyre 20.1 2.0
LEICESTERSHIRE
Blaby 1.7 -.1
Charnwood 7.7 .1
Harborough 9.2 4.4
Hinckley and Bosworth 8.4 .6
Leicester 24.3 5.9
Melton 12.6 1.9
North West Leicestershire 16.1 1.5
Oadby and Wigston 10.5 .7
Rutland 22.8 -.1
LINCOLNSHIRE
Boston 7.4 4.0
East Lindsey 10.1 -.1
Lincoln 9.6 1.5
North Kesteven 14.4 3.9
South Holland 12.0 1.6
South Kesteven 7.0 2.0
West Lindsey 12.2 -.1
NORFOLK
Breckland 9.5 7.1
Broadland 4.6 2.0
Great Yarmouth 5.9 1.5
North Norfolk 9.5 1.9
Norwich 22.1 1.5
South Norfolk 5.6 2.0
King's Lynn and West Norfolk 5.1 1.9
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Corby 19.3 1.5
Daventry 9.6 2.0
East Northamptonshire -3.1 2.0

Percentage change in target between 1982–83 and 1984–85 Percentage change in target between 1983–84 and 1984–85
Kettering 3.7 -.1
Northampton 4.8 1.5
South Northamptonshire 7.7 3.0
Wellingborough 20.5 1.9
NORTHMABERLAND
Alnwick -2.1 2.0
Berwick-upon-Tweed 14.4 -.1
Blyth Valley 6.8 1.5
Castle Morpeth 11.8 2.4
Tynedale 2.4 2.0
Wansbeck 8.5 1.5
NORTH YORKSHIRE
Craven 5.0 1.9
Hambleton 3.4 .8
Harrogate 4.9 1.5
Richmondshire 4.8 1.5
Ryedale 5.9 1.9
Scarborough 9.7 1.5
Selby -.8 -.1
York 5.9 4.0
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Ashfield 15.1 1.5
Bassetlaw 4.5 1.5
Broxtowe 13.4 1.9
Gedling 21.9 2.0
Mansfield 6.7 1.5
Newark 15.1 4.1
Nottingham 8.3 4.8
Rushcliffe 5.9 1.5
OXFORDSHIRE
Cherwell .2 .1
Oxford 18.2 2.0
South Oxfordshire 18.7 11.5
Vale of White Horse 2.9 4.4
West Oxfordshire 23.1 1.8
SHROPSHIRE
Bridgnorth 1.1 2.0
North Shropshire 9.7 3.7
Oswestry 3.1 1.6
Shrewsbury and Atcham 5.7 2.0
South Shropshire 3.9 1.7
The Wrekin 4.8 1.5
SOMERSET
Mendip 5.3 2.0
Sedgemoor 4.4 1.1
Taunton Deane 2.3 .6
West Somerset 21.6 2.0
Yeovil 7.9 4.6
STAFFORDSHIRE
Cannock Chase 19.6 -.1
East Staffordshire 17.9 8.2
Lichfield 4.0 -.1
Newcastle-under-Lyme 7.4 1.5
South Staffordshire 9.0 -.1
Stafford 14.9 2.8
Staffordshire Moorlands 11.8 .7
Stoke-on-Trent 11.9 2.5
Tamworth 1.6 -.1
SUFFOLK
Babergh 7.8 7.3
Forest Heath 15.7 -.1
Ipswich 5.9 1.5
Mid Suffolk 15.3 4.0
St. Edmundsbury 4.9 2.5
Suffolk Coastal 10.1 2.6

Percentage change in target between 1982–83 and 1984–85 Percentage change in target between 1983–84 and 1984–85
Waveney 8.6 2.0
SURREY
Elmbridge 8.4 1.5
Epsom and Ewell 4.9 1.5
Guildford 10.1 4.6
Mole Valley 6.9 3.9
Reigate and Banstead 2.8 7.1
Runnymede 7.3 3.6
Spelthorne 4.3 .4
Surrey Heath 6.4 1.6
Tandridge 6.6 3.2
Waverley .8 2.3
Woking 7.9 3.8
WARWICKSHIRE
North Warwickshire 7.3 1.5
Nuneaton and Bedworth 4.3 -. 1
Rugby 10.3 3.7
Stratford on Avon 2.6 2.1
Warwick 11.9 -.1
WEST SUSSEX
Adur 8.8 1.5
Arun 7.5 4.0
Chichester 19.2 4.3
Crawley 16.3 5.7
Horsham 14.5 1.7
Mid Sussex 1.4 1.6
Worthing 12.4 2.9
WILTSHIRE
Kennet -4.1 -.1
North Wiltshire 9.0 3.9
Salisbury .4 . 1
Thamesdown 17.2 1.5
West Wiltshire 10.5 7.7
Isles of Scilly 11.0 1.5

Dr. Cunningham

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a list of the 30 local authorities with the largest increases in their current expenditure, per head of population, between 1978–79 and 1983–84, estimates, showing for each (a) the increase in its current expenditure per head of population between 1978–79 and 1983–84 and (b) its percentage overspend of grant-related expenditure assessments in 1983–84.

Mr. Patrick Jenkin

The information is as follows:

Thirty authorities with largest percentage increases in net current expenditure per head between 1978–79 outturn and 1983–84 Budget
Percentage increase in net current expenditure per head Percentage overspend on GRE in 1983–84*
Greater London CL 191.0 81.74
Hackney 165.5 37.57
Ipswich 161.9 13.54
Camden 144.3 64.96
Merseyside 134.2 31.56
Cannock Chase 132.1 -1.00
City of London 130.2 229.76
Scunthorpe 128.7 19.70
Leicester 128.6 23.44
Kingswood 125.4 -17.95
Nottingham 124.1 -4.34

Percentage increase in net current expenditure per head Percentage overspend on GRE in 1983–84*
South Yorkshire 123.0 75.95
Kingston-upon-Hull 122.0 5.85
North Cornwall 119.4 -19.02
Easington 116.7 20.36
West Devon 115.9 -25.42
West Yorkshire 115.1 21.98
Harlow 113.9 73.68
West Midlands 113.8 12.79
Lambeth 113.7 39.41
Newham 113.2 16.08
Haringey 111.7 37.04
Greater Manchester 110.4 18.62
Hammersmith and Fulham 108.7 20.97
Brent 108.3 22.61
Great Grimsby 107.2 -2.29
Isles of Scilly 105.4 6.18
Wellingborough 105.4 -5.21
I.L.E.A. 105.2 66.13
Islington 104.0 29.12

* GRE used is at first supplementary report.

Mr. Chris Smith

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report, for each of the following figures, how many and which local authorities would have 1984–85 expenditure guidance constrained by reason of paragraph (2)(c) of annex D of the Rate Support Grant Report (England) 1984–85 if instead of 24 per cent. the figure used in that constraint had been (a) 20 per cent., (b) 21 per cent., (c) 22 per cent., (d) 23 per cent., (e) 25 per cent., (f) 26 per cent., (g) 27 per cent., (h) 28 per cent., (i) 29 per cent., and (j) 30 per cent. respectively.

Mr. Waldegrave

Following is the information:

Constraint 20 per cent. Constraint 25 per cent. Constraint 29 per cent.
Epping Forest GLC GLC
Leicester
Corby
Hackney
GLC
Constraint 21 per cent. Constraint 26 per cent. Constraint 30 per cent.
Epping Forest GLC GLC
Leicester
Hackney
GLC
Constraint 22 per cent. Constraint 27 per cent.
Epping Forest GLC
GLC
Constraint 23 per cent. Constraint 28 per cent.
Epping Forest GLC
GLC