§ Ms. Harmanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of new personal social services applications under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 for each year from 1979 to 1983.
§ Mr. WaddingtonI regret that information relating to years before 1983 is not readily available and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
§ Ms. Harmanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total amount spent on personal social services under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 since the criteria were revised in 1983, expressed in terms of 1979 prices.
§ Mr. WaddingtonIn 1979 prices grant claimed in 1983–84, representing 75 per cent. of eligible expenditure on personal social services, totalled £1,274,250, subject to audit and final acceptance of claims by the Home Office.
Figures for the financial year 1984–85 are not yet available.
§ Ms. Harmanasked the Secretary of State for the Horne Department what was the total amount allocated in grants 123W under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 since the criteria were changed in 1983, expressed in terms of 1979 prices.
§ Mr. WaddingtonIn 1979 prices the total grant claimed by local authorities is as follows. Claims are subject to audit and final scrutiny by the Home Office.
£ 1983–84 51,861,000 1984–85 46,591,500
§ Ms. Harmanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total amount spent on personal social services under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 in each of the years from 1979 to 1983 expressed in terms of 1979 prices.
§ Mr. WaddingtonIn the 1979 prices, grant claimed by local authorities in respect of personal social services, representing 75 per cent. of eligible expenditure, is as follows:
£ 1979–80 589,500 1980–81 729,750 1981–82 749,250 1982–83 966,750 Certain claims are subject to audit and to acceptance by the Home Office.
§ Ms. Harmanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the separate totals of money allocated under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 for each of the years from 1979 to 1983, expressed in terms of 1979 prices.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe total grant claimed by local authorities in 1979 prices in respect of the relevant years is as follows. Final settlements may differ slightly from amounts claimed following audit and Home Office scrutiny of claims.
£ 1979–80 34,588,500 1980–81 38,639,250 1981–82 41,703,750 1982–83 47,212,500
§ Ms. Harmanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the local authorities which have applied for money under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 together with the number of applications for each authority for each year from 1979 to 1983.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe following table lists local authorities which received grant in the relevant period. Grant is not time limited and local authorities will have received payment in respect of posts approved before 1979 as well as on new posts approved between 1979 and 1983. Details of new applications made by each local authority between 1979 and 1983 could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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Local authorities which received grant under section 11 in the financial years 1978–79—1983–84 Avon Bedfordshire Aylesbury Vale Berkshire Barking Birmingham Barnet Blackburn
Bolton Luton Bradford Manchester Brent Merton Buckinghamshire Newham Bury Northampton BC Calderdale Northamptonshire Cambridgeshire North Bedfordshire Camden North Hens Cleveland Nottinghamshire Coventry Oldham Croydon Oxford City Derby City Oxfordshire Derbyshire Pendle Dudley Preston Ealing Reading Enfield Redbridge Gloucestershire Rochdale GLC Rotherham Greenwich Rugby Hackney Sandwell Hammersmith Sheffield Hampshire Shropshire Haringey Slough Harrow Southampton Hertfordshire Southwark Hillingdon Staffordshire Hounslow Suffolk ILEA Tameside Ipswich Tower Hamlets Islington Trafford Kensington and Chelsea Walsall Kent Waltham Forest Kirklees Wandsworth Lambeth Warwickshire Lancashire Wellingborough Leeds Westminster Leicester City Wolverhampton Leicestershire Wycombe Lewisham 1979–80—1983–84
- Bristol
1978–79—1979–80
- Gravesham
1978–79—1983–84
- Warwick DC
1978–79, 1982–83 and 1983–84
- West Sussex
1981–82—1983–84
- Richmond
- Wiltshire
1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83 and 1983–84
- Nottingham City
1982–83 and 1983–84
- Liverpool
- West Midlands
1983–84
- Bexley
- South Glamorgan
- Essex
- Hyndburn
- Newcastle
§ Ms. Harmanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the total number of new personal social services applications under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 since the criteria were revised in 1983.
§ Mr. WaddingtonSixty-three.