§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those local authorities whose gross revenue expenditure has risen by (a) less than the rate of inflation as measured by the retail price index, (b) less than 10 per cent. above the rate of inflation and (c) less than 20 per cent. above the rate of inflation over the period of 1978–79 to 1982–83.
§ Mr. Waldegrave[pursuant to his answer, 7 June 1984, c. 249]: Following is the readily available information:
Authorities (1) whose gross rate over the period 1978–79 to 1982–83 has risen by:
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(a) less than the rate of inflation as measured by the retail price index (2). Sevenoaks Hillingdon Bridgnorth North Bedfordshire Breckland Bromley Surrey Heath Macclesfield Chichester Mid Devon Lewes Tynedale Stroud Beaconsfield Wansbeck Taunton Deane North Cornwall Derwentside Tewkesbury South Bedfordshire Malvern Hills Scarborough Eastbourne Birmingham Runnymede Colchester Slough New Forest Burnley Gateshead Gillingham South Shropshire Wear Valley Rother Teesdale Ryedale Lichfield Wakefield West Lancashire Penrith High Peak Thurrock Boothferry Northumberland Vale of White Horse Easington Three Rivers Wycombe Gloucester Stockton on Tees Stockport York Richmondshire Tower Hamlets East Devon Greater London CL (3) Canterbury Sutton Havant Bristol St. Albans Barrow in Furness Eden Sedgefield Reading Nuneaton Southampton Kingston-upon-Thames Broxbourne Trafford Hambleton Salford Merton Croydon Chiltern South Tyneside Elmbridge Knowsley Restormel Newcastle under Lyme Rochdale Lancaster Woking Bournemouth Epping Forest Barking & Dagenham Halton Warrington Wandsworth Yeovil Sedgemoor Southend on Sea Redbridge Sefton Richmond-upon-Thames Bracknell Aylesbury Vale Hertfordshire Windsor & Maidenhead Selby
Coventry Westminster South Oxfordshire Braintree Bedfordshire Kirklees Rotherham Ealing Cheshire Oxfordshire Tamworth Copeland Cannock Chase Copeland
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(b) more than the rate of inflation but less than 10 per cent, above the rate of inflation. East Sussex Torbay Caradon Swale Wirral Wokingham Portsmouth Guildford Allerdale Stoke-on-Trent East Northampton North Wiltshire Surrey Dorset Hertsmere Gloucestershire Havering Northavon Kent Salop Teignbridge Bradford Norwich Maldon Hampshire Ellesmere and Neston North Hertfordshire North Norfolk Solihull Liverpool Staffordshire Kerrier Durham Waveney Calderdale Hereford and Worcester Horsham Sandwell Lincolnshire North Devon Newcastle-upon-Tyne Uttlesford Broxtowe Corby South Derbyshire Islington Weymouth and Portland Devon Barnet Northampton
(c) more than 10 per cent, above the rate or inflation but less than 20 per cent, above the rate of inflation. West Sussex Brighton Kettering St. Edmundsbury Warwick Tameside Newham North Yorkshire Wellingborough Vale Royal Essex Boston Warwickshire South Kesteven Plymouth West Wiltshire Suffolk Berkshire Holdemess Arun South Hams Basingstoke and Deane Shrewsbury and Atcham Gravesham Thanet Oldham Bromsgrove Cleethorpes Craven Leeds Manchester Lancashire Crawley Doncaster Hastings Tunbridge Wells South Ribble Enfield Exeter South Wight Hyndburn Derbyshire North Wolds Wiltshire Wolverhampton Rushmoor Milton Keynes Leicestershire Derby Isle of Wight Medina Oswestry Broadland (1) A small number of local authorities which did not make returns to the Department in 1978–79 have been excluded from this analysis.
(2) The increase in the RPI over this period was 61 per cent.
(3) GLC includes ILEA.