§ Sir Peter Hordernasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing (a) grant-related expenditure per head (b) actual expenditure per head in 1985–86, (c) proposed block grant per head in 1986–87 and (d) the difference in block grant per head proposed compared with 1985–86 in the 10 shire metropolitan or London authorities with (i) the highest and (ii) the lowest grant-related expenditure per head proposed for 1986–87.
§ Mrs RumboldThe available information is shown in the following table: the amount of grant to be paid in 1986–87 will depend on authorites own spending decision.
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GRE head* 1986–87 settlement £ Expenditure per head* 1985–86 2nd Supplementary Report £ Grant per ÷ 1985–86 2nd Supplementary Report £ Highest GRE per head City of London 4,369.25 10,703.85 –8,653.72 Isles of Scilly 761.50 645.62 377.92 Newham 674.25 628.06 299.34 Tower Hamlets 662.19 448.35 169.23 Haringey 632.54 664.62 214.38 Brent 603.32 584.08 179.32 Manchester 576.83 548.16 203.22 Islington 570.89 526.88 172.75 Hackney 566.49 522.70 256.80 Camden 542.50 670.14 80.26 Lowest GRE per head Wandsworth 364.66 247.72 209.00 Hertfordshire 364.42 342.51 59.65 Avon 362.91 349.47 97.72 Suffolk 357.77 322.92 120.30 Dorset 352.63 310.51 95.53 East Sussex 352.43 306.86 82.49 West Sussex 347.38 298.21 77.06 Oxfordshire 337.78 317.04 70.35 Surrey 333.39 307.42 32.72 Greenwich 316.58 308.36 167.11 Footnotes:
* Comparisons of GRE and expenditure per head between different classes of authorities are misleading because functions differ between classes.
òIncludes payments to and receipts from the London Resource Equalisation Scheme.