HC Deb 11 February 1985 vol 73 cc33-5W
Mr. Pike

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many local authorities in England have a cash target figure more than 50 per cent. above their grant-related expenditure figure; and if he will list them in the Official Report.

Mr. Waldegrave

Thirteen local authorities in England have a target for 1985–86 which is more than 50 per cent. above their grant-related expenditure assessment. They are:

  • City of London
  • Camden
  • Greenwich
  • ILEA
  • Sedgefield
  • Wear Valley
  • Basildon
  • Harlow
  • Stevenage
  • Burnley
  • Rossendale
  • Crawley
  • Thamesdown

Mr. Pike

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many local authorities in England have a cash target figure below their grant-related expenditure assessment figure; and if he will list them in the Official Report.

Mr. Waldegrave

The information is as follows. Two hundred and nine local authorities in England have a target for 1985–6 which is below their grant-related expenditure assessment. They are:

Avon Hereford and Worcestershire
Berkshire Hertfordshire
Buckinghamshire Humberside
Cambridgeshire Isle of Wight
Cheshire Kent
Cleveland Lancashire
Cornwall Leicestershire
Cumbria Lincolnshire
Derbyshire Norfolk
Devon Northamptonshire
Dorset Northumberland
Durham North Yorkshire
East Sussex Nottinghamshire
Essex Oxfordshire
Gloucestershire Shropshire
Hampshire Somerset

Staffordshire Braintree
Suffolk Brentwood
Surrey Chelmsford
Warwickshire Colchester
West Sussex Maldon
Wiltshire Uttlesford
Wandsworth Cheltenham
Bromley Cotswold
Croydon Forest of Dean
Merton Gloucester
Redbridge Stroud
Sutton Tewkesbury
Bolton Basingstoke and Deane
Oldham Eastleigh
Stockport Gosport
Trafford Havant
Sefton New Forest
Wirral Southampton
Birmingham Test Valley
Dudley Winchester
Sandwell Bromsgrove
Solihull Leominster
Walsall South Herefordshire
Wolverhampton St Albans
Bradford Beverley
Calderdale Great Grimsby
Kirklees Holderness
Leeds Kingston upon Hull
Wakefield Medina
Greater Manchester Ashford
West Midlands Dover
Bath Gillingham
Kingswood Maidstone
Northavon Rochester upon Medway
Wansdyke Tunbridge Wells
North Bedfordshire Blackpool
Luton South Ribble
Mid Bedfordshire Blaby
Bracknell Charnwood
Slough Hinckley and Bosworth
Wokingham Oadby and Wigston
Aylesbury Vale Rutland
South Bucks Boston
Chiltern East Linsey
Wycombe Lincoln
Cambridge North Kesteven
East Cambridgeshire South Kesteven
Fenland Breckland
Huntingdon Broadland
South Cambridgeshire North Norfolk
Macclesfield South Norfolk
Caradon Daventry
Carrick East Northamptonshire
Kerrier Northampton
North Cornwall South Northamptonshire
Penwith Alnwick
Restormel Berwick-upon-Tweed
Allerdale Castle Morpeth
Eden Hambleton
South Derbyshire Ryedale
East Devon Selby
Exeter York
North Devon Broxtowe
Plymouth Nottingham
Teignbridge Cherwell
Torbay Oxford
West Devon South Oxfordshire
Bournemouth Vale of White Horse
Christchurch West Oxfordshire
North Dorset Bridgnorth
Purbeck North Shropshire
West Dorset Oswestry
Weymouth and Portland Shrewsbury and Atcham
Wimborne South Shropshire
Teesdale Mendip
Eastbourne Sedgemoor
Hastings Taunton Deane
Hove West Somerset
Rother Yeovil
Wealden East Staffordshire

Lichfield Arun
South Staffordshire Chichester
Stafford Horsham
Tamworth Kennet
Babergh North Wiltshire
St Edmundsbury Salisbury
Suffolk Coastal West Wiltshire
Waveney Isles of Scilly
Warwick