HC Deb 09 July 1985 vol 82 c400W
Mr. Ashdown

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether local authorities which exceeded their expenditure limit as a result of making use of the technical and vocational education initiative related to in-service training support for the period 1985 to 1987 are liable to be rate-capped.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

Approved schemes are funded in full by specific grant; expenditure will therefore not count as total expenditure for rate support grant purposes. It will therefore not affect authorities' liability to be selected for rate limitation.

Mr. Tony Banks

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 financial year 1983–84.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

Following is the information based on returns made by local authorities:

Section 137 expediture limits and actual expenditure in 1983–84 (nearest £'000)
Metropolitan Districts 2p Rate Product Actual Expenditure
Barnsley 773,000 377,000
Birmingham 3,394,000 1,230,000
Bolton 883,000 162,000
Bradford 1,546,000 183,000
Bury 594,000 33,000
Calderdale 645,000 36,000
Coventry 1,071,000 22,000
Doncaster 978,000 0
Dudley 950,000 0
Gateshead 711,000 489,000
Kirklees 1,237,000 66,000
Knowsley 556,000 290,000
Leeds 2,353,000 0
Liverpool 1,735,000 1,639,000
Manchester 1,624,000 369,000
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 939,000 266,000
North Tyneside 663,000 206,000
Oldham 738,000 56,000
Rochdale 682,000 371,000
Rotherham 836,000 (*)
Salford 979,000 89,000
Sandwell 1,010,000 1,049,000
Sefton 971,000 0
Sheffield 1,822,000 1,007,000
Solihull 671,000 0
South Tyneside 556,000 0
St. Helens 633,000 0
Stockport 963,000 0
Sunderland 949,000 248,000
Tameside 728,000 296,000
Trafford 742,000 77,000
Wakefield 1,064,000 419,030
Walsall 865,000 (*)
Wigan 1,016,000 54,000
Wirral 1,110,000 0
Wolverhampton 846,000 533,000
* Indicates that a form (RS02) has not been returned by the authority.

A zero indicates that either no expenditure was incurred or that no information was given on the return form.