HC Deb 19 March 1985 vol 75 cc411-20W
Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

asked the Sectretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report (i) for each county council and (ii) for each district council in England and Wales (a) the total payments made in rate support grant for the year 1974–75, (b) an estimate of the payments shown in (a) above at present day prices and (c) the total payments made in rate support grant for the year 1984–85.

Mr. Waldegrave

This information is given in the following table. The figures in columns 2 and 3 are not comparable, for the following reasons:

(i) Rate support grant in 1974–75 comprised needs, resources and domestic elements. Needs element was paid to non-metropolitan county councils, metropolitan district councils and London borough councils. Resources element was paid to qualifying non-metropolitan district councils, metropolitan district councils and London borough councils. No payments were made to precepting authorities in London or to the metropolitan county councils.

(ii) The figures for 1984–85 comprise block grant, after holdback, and domestic rate relief grant. Block grant is payable to all local authorities.

Receipts and payments under the appropriate London rate equalisation scheme are not included.

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales has been responsible for payments of rate support grant to local authorities in Wales since 1981–82.

£million
RSG payment for 1974–75 At 1984–85 price base using GDP deflator RSG payment for 1984–85
Avon 48.3 153.5 102.8
Bedfordshire 25.7 81.8 60.1
Berkshire 41.1 130.8 55.9
Buckinghamshire 28.7 91.5 57.5
Cambridgeshire 27.8 88.3 74.7
Cheshire 46.7 148.4 100.6
Cleveland 37.3 118.7 92.0
Cornwall 18.8 59.8 73.3
Cumbria 32.5 103.3 91.4
Derbyshire 45.0 143.1 132.8
Devon 44.3 141.0 144.5
Dorset 25.3 80.6 61.5
Durham 32.2 102.3 120.5
East Sussex 29.7 94.4 61.8
Essex 81.2 258.3 144.1
Gloucestershire 24.5 77.8 70.4
Hampshire 73.9 234.9 186.8
Hereford and Worcester 30.4 96.7 88.6
Hertfordshire 61.8 196.6 70.5
Humberside 46.6 148.2 165.8
Isle of Wight 4.7 15.0 20.1

RSG payment for 1974–75 At 1984–85 price base using GDP deflator RSG payment for 1984–85
Kent 81.8 260.2 219.2
Lancashire 72.3 229.9 279.0
Leicestershire 43.7 138.9 136.2
Lincolnshire 28.5 90.7 96.9
Norfolk 31.5 100.2 92.6
Northamptonshire 24.5 77.9 84.9
Northumberland 19.5 62.2 50.2
North Yorkshire 39.8 126.5 108.2
Nottinghamshire 52.5 166.9 167.7
Oxfordshire 27.5 87.4 49.8
Salop 19.1 60.8 67.3
Somerset 19.4 61.8 65.5
Staffordshire 51.5 163.7 158.4
Suffolk 26.2 83.4 78.6
Surrey 52.7 167.6 49.0
Warwickshire 24.0 76.3 61.9
West Sussex 29.1 92.4 59.0
Wiltshire 28.3 90.1 87.4
Clywd 19.9 63.3 *
Dyfed 22.2 70.5 *
Gwent 24.8 78.9 *
Gwynedd 15.4 49.0 *
Mid Glamorgan 28.8 91.5 *
Powys 11.0 35.0 *
South Glamorgan 22.7 72.2 *
West Glamorgan 19.4 61.8 *
Greater Manchester 0.0 0.0 102.6
Merseyside 0.0 0.0 62.5
South Yorkshire 0.0 0.0 62.3
Tyne and Wear 0.0 0.0 75.8
West Midlands 0.0 0.0 65.8
West Yorkshire 0.0 0.0 103.0
Isles of Scilly 0.3 0.9 0.7
Greater Manchester
Bolton 26.0 82.7 57.9
Bury 16.0 50.8 33.0
Manchester 58.4 185.6 96.2
Oldham 22.7 72.2 54.7
Rochdale 22.3 70.9 51.2
Salford 27.5 87.4 57.0
Stockport 25.0 79.6 43.4
Tameside 22.5 71.6 48.1
Trafford 14.8 47.1 24.5
Wigan 31.0 98.8 63.9
Merseyside
Knowsley 22.1 70.4 39.7
Liverpool 65.6 208.8 118.3
St. Helens 17.9 57.0 36.8
Sefton 27.9 88.9 48.5
Wirral 33.6 107.0 61.7
South Yorkshire
Barnsley 25.0 79.5 49.8
Doncaster 30.6 97.2 60.3
Rotherham 26.4 84.1 56.1
Sheffield 52.5 166.8 89.8
Tyne and Wear
Gateshead 24.1 76.6 44.3
Newcastle upon
Tyne 30.2 96.0 38.4
North Tyneside 23.0 73.1 39.8
South Tyneside 21.2 67.3 39.5
Sunderland 33.9 107.9 61.8
West Midlands
Birmingham 91.4 290.7 195.0
Coventry 30.2 96.1 61.1
Dudley 20.4 64.9 39.4

RSG payment for 1974–75 At 1984–85 price base using GDP deflator RSG payment for 1984–85
Sandwell 21.5 68.4 54.3
Solihull 15.8 50.2 30.2
Walsall 20.7 65.7 47.4
Wolverhampton 19.7 62.7 48.1
West Yorkshire
Bradford 53.2 169.2 114.1
Calderdale 21.4 67.9 44.9
Kirklees 40.4 128.6 91.2
Leeds 68.8 219.0 125.0
Wakefield 32.6 103.6 57.6
City of London 0.4 1.4 0.6
Camden 21.4 68.2 5.3
Greenwich 18.5 59.0 24.9
Hackney 22.3 71.0 44.7
Hammersmith and Fulham 18.0 57.3 33.8
Islington 22.0 70.0 3.9
Kensington and Chelsea 19.3 61.3 14.4
Lambeth 29.2 93.0 37.3
Lewisham 27.5 87.3 43.0
Southwark 26.8 85.3 17.8
Tower Hamlets 19.1 60.7 21.8
Wandsworth 28.9 91.9 49.9
Westminster 24.0 76.4 14.1
Greater London
Council 0.0 0.0 0.0
Inner London
Education
Authority 0.0 0.0 0.0
Metropolitan Police 0.0 0.0 137.8
Barking and Dagenham 12.8 40.8 26.7
Barnet 21.6 68.7 38.9
Bexley 17.1 54.5 46.6
Brent 21.8 69.2 55.4
Bromley 20.3 64.5 47.8
Croydon 23.2 73.7 48.6
Ealing 20.9 66.5 59.0
Enfield 17.4 55.2 45.0
Haringey 20.8 66.2 54.1
Harrow 13.7 43.6 33.9
Havering 18.3 58.3 45.9
Hillingdon 15.6 49.6 22.7
Hounslow 14.9 47.5 18.4
Kingston-upon-Thames 9.6 30.6 18.4
Merton 12.4 39.4 29.1
Newham 20.0 63.6 75.8
Redbridge 15.5 49.2 42.1
Richmond-upon-Thames 10.7 34.0 20.2
Sutton 10.8 34.3 28.6
Waltham Forest 18.2 57.9 65.1
Avon
Bath 2.8 9.0 3.4
Bristol 10.0 31.7 16.3
Kingswood 3.5 11.2 2.9
Northavon 3.3 10.6 2.9
Wansdyke 2.7 8.7 2.0
Woodspring 4.9 15.5 6.0
Bedfordshire
North
Bedfordshire 2.7 8.7 3.9
Luton 1.6 5.2 5.4

RSG payment for 1974–75 At 1984–85 price base using GDP deflator RSG payment for 1984–85
Mid
Bedfordshire 3.5 11.1 2.3
South
Bedfordshire 1.0 3.1 2.3
Berkshire
Bracknell 1.0 3.2 2.5
Newbury 2.0 6.4 3.6
Reading 1.2 3.7 3.8
Slough 0.9 3.0 3.0
Windsor and Maidenhead 1.5 4.8 3.9
Wokingham 2.7 8.7 3.4
Buckinghamshire
Aylesbury Vale 2.3 7.2 3.3
Beaconsfield 1.0 3.0 1.6
Chiltern 1.4 4.6 2.5
Milton Keynes 1.0 3.2 3.3
Wycombe 1.7 5.5 4.0
Cambridgeshire
Cambridge 1.0 3.3 3.2
East
Cambridgeshire 2.3 7.3 1.4
Fenland 2.8 8.9 2.0
Huntingdon 3.8 12.1 3.3
Peterborough 2.9 9.2 4.1
South
Cambridgeshire 2.8 8.8 2.8
Cheshire
Chester 2.5 7.8 3.5
Congleton 2.6 8.2 2.3
Crewe and Nantwich 4.0 12.7 3.8
Ellesmere and Neston 0.7 2.2 1.9
Halton 2.1 6.7 3.9
Macclesfield 3.9 12.4 4.9
Vale Royal 3.2 10.1 3.2
Warrington 5.6 17.9 5.1
Cleveland
Hartlepool 4.3 13.7 4.7
Langbaurgh 2.9 9.1 4.4
Middlesbrough 8.9 28.2 9.9
Stockton-on-Tees 4.4 13.9 5.2
Cornwall
Caradon 2.4 7.6 2.4
Carrick 2.5 7.8 2.9
Kerrier 3.3 10.6 2.7
North Cornwall 2.2 6.9 2.5
Penwith 1.9 6.0 2.2
Restormel 2.1 6.8 2.4
Cumbria
Allerdale 4.2 13.4 4.0
Barrow-in-Furness 3.6 11.4 3.3
Carlisle 3.6 11.4 4.0
Copeland 3.2 10.2 2.8
Eden 1.7 5.5 1.3
South Lakeland 3.3 10.5 3.8
Derbyshire
Amber Valley 4.6 14.6 3.7
Bolsover 3.9 12.5 2.6
Chesterfield 3.5 11.2 3.6
Derby 5.7 18.2 8.4
Erewash 3.8 11.9 3.8
High Peak 3.1 9.9 2.7

RSG payment for 1974–75 At 1984–85 price base using GDP deflator RSG payment for 1984–85
North East
Derbyshire 4.5 14.5 3.4
South
Derbyshire 1.5 4.9 1.5
West
Derbyshire 2.8 8.8 2.5
Devon
East Devon 3.4 10.8 4.0
Exeter 2.0 6.4 3.8
North Devon 2.6 8.3 2.7
Plymouth 9.0 28.7 9.9
South Hams 2.1 6.7 2.8
Teignbridge 3.2 10.1 3.7
Mid Devon 2.3 7.2 1.9
Torbay 1.7 5.3 4.6
Torridge 2.2 6.9 2.1
West Devon 1.6 5.1 1.4
Dorset
Bournemouth 1.6 5.1 6.9
Christchurch 0.4 1.4 1.6
North Dorset 1.9 6.0 1.4
Poole 1.7 5.4 4.4
Purbeck 0.9 2.8 1.2
West Dorset 3.0 9.5 2.7
Weymouth and Portland 2.2 6.9 2.5
Wimborne 1.6 5.1 2.4
Durham
Chester le Street 2.9 9.1 2.3
Darlington 3.4 10.9 3.9
Derwentside 4.8 15.2 4.4
Durham 4.7 14.8 3.3
Easington 6.8 21.5 4.9
Sedgefield 5.1 16.2 4.8
Teesdale 1.1 3.7 0.8
Wear Valley 4.0 12.8 3.2
East Sussex
Brighton 2.9 9.1 7.9
Eastbourne 0.9 2.8 3.7
Hastings 2.3 7.5 4.0
Hove 1.2 3.8 5.1
Lewes 1.8 5.8 3.0
Rother 1.8 5.9 3.5
Wealden 3.9 12.4 4.0
Essex
Basildon 2.1 6.8 2.7
Braintree 2.6 8.2 3.2
Brentwood 1.0 3.1 2.0
Castle Point 2.3 7.3 3.0
Chelmsford 1.7 5.3 4.1
Colchester 3.6 11.3 4.2
Epping Forest 1.8 5.7 3.5
Harlow 0.7 2.3 1.3
Maldon 0.9 2.8 1.3
Rochford 1.8 5.8 2.5
Southend on Sea 1.9 6.2 7.5
Tendring 3.0 9.5 5.1
Thurrock 1.3 4.1 2.1
Uttlesford 1.3 4.1 1.9
Gloucestershire
Cheltenham 1.2 3.8 3.3
Cotswold 2.1 6.7 2.3
Forest of Dean 3.3 10.6 2.3
Gloucester 2.3 7.2 3.0

RSG payment for 1974–75 At 1984–85 price base using GDP deflator RSG payment for 1984–85
Stroud 3.4 10.7 3.0
Tewkesbury 2.3 7.2 1.9
Hampshire
Basingstoke and Deane 2.6 8.4 3.7
East Hampshire 2.9 9.4 3.2
Eastleigh 2.2 6.9 2.5
Fareham 2.8 9.0 2.8
Gosport 3.0 9.7 3.0
Hart 2.2 7.1 2.2
Havant 3.6 11.4 4.4
New Forest 1.3 5.7 4.6
Portsmouth 6.1 19.2 10.1
Rushmoor 1.9 6.0 3.1
Southampton 4.5 14.3 8.6
Test Valley 2.8 9.0 2.5
Winchester 2.4 7.5 2.8
Hereford and Worcester
Bromsgrove 2.2 6.9 2.3
Hereford 1.2 3.8 1.6
Leominster 1.7 5.4 1.3
Malvern Hills 3.4 10.9 2.8
Redditch 0.7 2.1 1.9
South
Herefordshire 2.3 7.2 1.4
Worcester 0.7 2.4 2.5
Wychavon 2.5 7.8 2.8
Wyre Forest 2.0 6.3 3.0
Hertfordshire
Broxbourne 1.6 4.9 2.6
Dacorum 1.3 4.3 4.1
East
Hertfordshire 2.4 7.6 3.3
Hertsmere 1.1 3.4 2.4
North
Hertfordshire 1.1 3.5 3.1
St. Albans 1.4 4.5 3.6
Stevenage 0.7 2.3 1.8
Three Rivers 1.1 3.6 2.5
Watford 0.8 2.6 2.7
Welwyn
Hatfield 1.1 3.4 2.0
Humberside
Beverley 3.7 11.9 3.6
Boothferry 2.7 8.6 2.8
Cleethorpes 2.0 6.3 2.8
Glanford 1.7 5.3 2.4
Great Grimsby 3.4 10.7 4.1
Holderness 1.6 5.2 1.6
Kingston-upon-Hull 13.0 41.3 15.7
North Wolds 3.3 10.4 3.3
Scunthorpe 0.5 1.5 2.9
Isle of Wight
Medina 2.5 8.0 2.4
South Wight 1.6 5.1 1.9
Kent
Ashford 2.5 7.9 3.1
Canterbury 3.7 11.9 5.0
Dartford 2.7 8.7 3.3
Dover 4.2 13.3 4.1
Gillingham 3.1 9.8 3.0
Gravesham 2.6 8.3 3.5
Maidstone 4.1 13.1 4.2
Medway 2.9 9.1 4.9
Sevenoaks 3.8 12.1 3.7

RSG payment for 1974–75 At 1984–85 price base using GDP deflator RSG payment for 1984–85
Shepway 2.4 7.6 3.7
Swale 3.8 12.0 3.8
Thanet 4.0 12.7 6.5
Tonbridge and Mailing 2.7 8.4 2.9
Tunbridge
Wells 3.2 10.1 3.4
Lancashire
Blackburn 7.2 22.8 9.6
Blackpool 4.1 12.9 7.8
Burnley 4.9 15.7 5.5
Chorley 3.6 11.3 3.3
Fylde 2.1 6.8 2.7
Hyndburn 4.0 12.7 3.8
Lancaster 5.1 16.2 5.5
Pendle 4.6 14.6 4.4
Preston 4.6 14.6 6.1
Ribble Valley 2.3 7.2 1.8
Rossendale 3.7 11.8 3.2
South Ribble 3.7 11.9 3.0
West
Lancashire 3.7 11.7 3.7
Wyre 3.9 12.3 4.5
Leicestershire
Blaby 3.1 9.8 2.1
Charnwood 3.4 10.8 3.7
Harborough 2.0 6.4 1.7
Hinckley and Bosworth 2.6 8.4 2.2
Leicester 6.3 20.2 12.7
Melton 1.2 4.0 1.3
North West
Leicester 2.5 8.0 2.2
Oadby and Wigston 1.6 5.1 1.5
Rutland 1.1 3.4 0.9
Lincolnshire
Boston 1.8 5.6 2.1
East Lindsey 4.0 12.6 3.5
Lincoln 2.7 8.5 3.1
North Kesteven 3.4 10.9 2.4
South Holland 2.6 8.3 2.5
South Kesteven 3.4 10.7 3.2
West Lindsey 3.5 11.2 2.4
Norfolk
Breckland 3.2 10.2 2.8
Broadland 4.0 12.6 2.8
Great Yarmouth 2.2 7.0 3.0
North Norfolk 2.7 8.4 3.3
Norwich 1.0 3.0 4.1
South Norfolk 3.6 11.6 2.8
West Norfolk 3.9 12.6 4.0
Northamptonshire
Corby 0.7 2.2 1.9
Daventry 1.2 3.9 1.4
East
Northampton 2.4 7.6 1.8
Kettering 2.7 8.6 2.3
Northampton 3.5 11.1 6.0
South
Northampton 2.4 7.7 1.8
Wellingborough 1.9 5.9 2.2
Northumberland
Alnwick 1.5 4.6 1.3
Berwick-upon-Tweed 1.3 4.0 1.0
Blyth Valley 3.3 10.6 3.8
Castle Morpeth 2.1 6.7 1.5

RSG payment for 1974–75 At 1984–85 price base using GDP deflator RSG payment for 1984–85
Tynedale 2.6 8.1 1.9
Wansbeck 2.5 7.9 2.3
North Yorkshire
Craven 1.9 6.1 1.7
Hambleton 3.0 9.5 2.1
Harrogate 4.4 14.1 5.3
Richmondshire 1.9 6.0 1.6
Ryedale 3.6 11.5 2.6
Scarborough 4.1 13.1 4.4
Selby 2.1 6.7 1.4
York 4.1 13.1 4.1
Nottinghamshire
Ashfield 5.1 16.3 3.7
Bassetlaw 2.6 8.1 1.8
Broxtowe 3.6 11.5 3.5
Gedling 4.2 13.5 3.7
Mansfield 4.5 14.4 4.9
Newark 4.5 14.3 3.3
Nottingham 6.8 21.5 13.1
Rushcliffe 2.7 8.5 2.4
Oxfordshire
Cherwell 2.5 8.1 2.9
Oxford 1.0 3.2 4.6
South
Oxfordshire 4.2 13.3 3.5
Vale of White
Horse 2.4 7.7 2.2
West
Oxfordshire 2.9 9.3 2.5
Salop
Bridgnorth 1.8 5.7 1.4
North
Shropshire 2.2 6.9 1.8
Oswestry 1.5 4.9 1.0
Shrewsbury and Atcham 2.3 7.3 2.6
South
Shropshire 1.7 5.3 1.4
The Wrekin 3.6 11.4 4.8
Somerset
Mendip 3.0 9.5 2.6
Sedgemoor 2.9 9.2 3.0
Taunton Deane 2.9 9.3 3.0
West Somerset 0.6 2.0 0.9
Yeovil 4.6 14.7 3.9
Staffordshire
Cannock Chase 2.8 9.1 2.6
East
Staffordshire 2.6 8.2 3-£
Lichfield 2.5 7.8 2.3
Newcastle under Lyme 5.1 16.1 4.2
South
Staffordshire 2.9 9.1 2.6
Stafford 3.0 9.6 3.3
Staffs.
Moorlands 3.8 12.0 2.9
Stoke-on-Trent 9.9 31.5 9.0
Tamworth 1.5 4.9 2.4
Suffolk
Babergh 2.3 7.4 2.4
Forest Heath 1.6 5.2 2.0
Ipswich 2.0 6.5 4.5
Mid Suffolk 2.4 7.7 2.2
St.
Edmundsbury 2.1 6.6 2.5

RSG payment for 1974–75 At 1984–85 price base using GDP deflator RSG payment for 1984–85
Suffolk Coastal 3.1 9.9 3.1
Waveney 3.4 10.8 4.2
Surrey
Elmbridge 1.7 5.4 2.8
Epsom and Ewell 1.2 3.7 2.4
Guildford 1.4 4.6 3.0
Mole Valley 1.4 4.5 2.0
Reigate and Banstead 2.1 6.6 3.0
Runnymede 1.4 4.5 1.8
Spelthorne 1.1 3.4 1.7
Surrey Heath 0.9 2.8 1.9
Tandridge 2.5 7.9 2.1
Waverley 2.2 6.9 3.2
Woking 1.1 3.6 3.1
Warwickshire
North
Warwickshire 1.3 4.3 1.7
Nuneaton 4.3 13.7 4.4
Rugby 2.6 8.3 2.7
Stratford-on-Avon 2.1 6.8 3.0
Warwick 2.0 6.3 3.5
West Sussex
Adur 1.3 4.1 1.9
Arun 2.5 7.9 5.3
Chichester 2.5 7.9 3.7
Crawley 0.6 1.8 1.1
Horsham 2.5 7.8 3.2
Mid Sussex 2.5 8.8 3.6
Worthing 1.7 5.3 4.6
Wiltshire
Kennet 2.9 9.3 2.0
North Wiltshire 4.3 13.6 2.9
Salisbury 3.3 10.5 3.0
Thamesdown 5.0 16.1 4.3
West Wiltshire 3.2 10.1 2.7
Clwyd
Alyn and Deeside 2.6 8.3 *
Colwyn 2.6 8.4 *
Delyn 3.7 11.9 *
Glyndwr 2.4 7.7 *
Rhuddlan 2.6 8.2 *
Wrexham
Maelor 6.4 20.2 *
Dyfed
Carmarthen 3.5 11.1 *
Ceredigion 3.5 11.3 *
Dinepwr 2.5 8.1 *
Llanelli 4.8 15.3 *
Preseli 3.6 11.3 *
South
Pembrokeshire 0.6 2.0 *
Gwent
Blaenau Gwent 6.5 20.7 *
Islwyn 5.3 17.0 *
Monmouth 4.0 12.9 *
Newport 3.8 12.2 *
Torfaen 5.9 18.6 *
Gwynedd
Aberconwy 2.9 9.3 *
Arfon 3.8 12.0 *
Dwyfor 1.5 4.9 *
Meirionnydd 1.7 5.3 *
Ynys Mon 3.7 11.8 *

RSG payment for 1974–75 At 1984–85 price base using GDP deflator RSG payment for 1984–85
Mid Glamorgan
Cynon Valley 5.6 18.0 *
Merthyr Tydfil 5.1 16.1 *
Ogwr 9.1 29.0 *
Rhondda 8.4 26.8 *
Rhymney
Valley 9.2 29.1 *
Taff Ely 5.9 18.7 *
Powys
Brecknock 2.5 7.9 *
Montgomery 2.8 9.0 *
Radnor 1.0 3.1 *
South Glamorgan
Cardiff 11.6 36.8 *
Vale of Glamorgan 5.9 18.9 *
West Glamorgan
Afan 1.2 3.7 *
Lliw Valley 4.0 12.8 *
Neath 3.6 11.3 *
Swansea 11.9 38.0 *