HC Deb 15 May 1984 vol 60 cc118-20W
Dr. Cunningham

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the allowable expenditure and the actual expenditure of each metropolitan district. or borough council under section 137 of the Local Government Act for the latest complete year for which figures are available.

Mr. Patrick Jenkin

On the basis of returns sent to my Department, expenditure of each metropolitan district or borough in England in 1982–83, together with the allowable expenditure, was as follows:

Section 137 expenditure 1982–83
Actual net expenditure Allowable expenditure
£ £
Greater Manchester
Bolton 15,582 881,248
Bury 9,877 601,926
Manchester 36,711 1,686,470
Oldham 0 742,652
Rochdale 234,588 709,000
Salford 25,185 1,013,098
Stockport 0 976,514
Tameside 204,935 724,944
Trafford 131,992 739,436
Wigan 0 1,026,042
Merseyside
Knowsley 606 557,086
Liverpool 133,988 1,762,i542
St. Helens 0 632,938
Sefton 0 978,744
Wirral 200,000 1,119,000
South Yorkshire
Barnsley 315,862 786,406
Doncaster 211,716 982,524
Rotherham 0 856,352
Sheffield 409,704 1,831,482
Tyne and Wear
Gateshead 495,192 717,352
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 172,829 961,882
North Tyneside 160,190 631,874
South Tyneside 0 567,468
Sunderland 0 964,446
West Midlands
Birmingham 3,421,498 3,444,978

Actual net expenditure Allowable expenditure
£ £
Coventry 130,817 1,139,278
Dudley 0 961,164
Sandwell 5,596 1,002,314
Solihull 0 664,444
Walsall 0 883,106
Wolverhampton 120,830 852,214
West Yorkshire
Bradford 139,594 1,561,844
Calderdale 42,454 662,654
Kirklees 0 1,274,768
Leeds 1,632,381 2,429,426
Wakefield 414,762 1,037,962
Greater London
City of London 1,975 4,800,000
Camden 434,760 2,160,000
Greenwich 0 978,922
Hackney 0 904,138
Hammersmith & Fulham 631,466 802,330
Islington 361,063 1,050,000
Kensington & Chelsea 486,018 1,380,000
Lambeth 631,605 1,228,508
Lewisham 307,958 1,125,054
Southwark 0 1,120,000
Tower Hamlets 0 976,340
Wandsworth 374,225 1,290,520
Westminster 0 6,220,000
Barking & Dagenham 13,430 627,122
Barnet 47,557 1,196,000
Bexley 1,138 872,152
Brent 631,572 999,400
Bromley 0 1,182,436
Croydon 0 1,352,916
Ealing 0 1,154,954
Enfield 2,370 1,069,748
Haringey 60,073 909,666
Harrow 8,600 794,708
Havering 0 964,710
Hillingdon 0 1,176,000
Hounslow 15,795 972,000
Kingston-upon-Thames 0 598,568
Merton 4,550 676,860
Newham 43,656 885,040
Redbridge 0 916,314
Richmond-upon-Thames 1,211 722,394

Local Authority Expenditure on Derelict Land Reclamation
Local authority 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83
Category A Category B
Avon
Bristol 91,673
Kingswood 1,090
Wansdyke 14,390
Woodspring 32,753
Berkshire
Berkshire CC 541,615
Reading 152,145
Buckinghamshire
Milton Keynes 60,246
Cambridgeshire
Peterborough 6,700 3,980
Fenland 7,300
Cheshire
Congleton 63,019 92,673 69,923 125,000
Chester 60,191 471,006 15,989
Crewe and Nantwich 167,551 101,429 30,763 291,754
Ellesmere Port 12,420 37,904 492,835 338,092

Actual net expenditure Allowable expenditure
£ £
Sutton 14,175 688,108
Waltham Forest 5,060 868,570
ILEA 7,500 22,340,000
GLC 8,385,648 38,750,000