Housing Revenue Account Dwellings

HC Deb 16 January 1986 vol 89 cc663-4W

Dr. Cunningham

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the value of Exchequer subsidies and rate fund contributions, separately, to local authorities' housing revenue account dwellings, on a per dwelling basis, for the years 1978–79 to 1985–86, and the

	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86
Greater Manchester Bury	0	0	0	138,700	0
Merseyside St. Helens	0	887,000	0	0	0
South Yorkshire
Tyne and Wear South Tyneside	0	0	0	2,841,278	1,327,550
West Midlands
Birmingham	0	0	0	273,300	0
Dudley	0	0	1,000,000	1,750,000	0
West Yorkshire
Kensington and Chelsea	0	0	0	0	247,540
Barking and Dagenham	0	1,138,713	2,840,000	2,544,000	4,323,500
Barnet	0	428,492	0	0	0
Bexley	0	0	0	1,268,100	8,000
Bromley	48,064	69,855	159,080	2,294,956	0
Ealing	0	218,349	183,974	682,892	983,700
Havering	216,660	1,651,025	1,917,311	1	329,960
Hillingdon	1,129,757	693,033	954,514	1,112,610	1,902,180
Kingston-upon-Thames	0	1,894,601	1,321,994	1,884,789	2,445,200
Merton	0	0	1,030,903	1,313,855	0
Redbridge	0	0	12,000	90,000	90,000
Sutton	0	191,169	321,408	367,360	347,600
Avon
Wansdyke	0	0	464,500	1,926,800	1,366,200
Woodspring	300,784	1,060,398	809,979	635,723	683,390
Bedfordshire South Bedfordshire	0	0	30,517	65,646	76,485

estimate for 1986–87, and the number of local authority housing revenue account dwellings on which these figures are based.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

The available information is as follows. It is based on information provided by local authorities in their housing subsidy claim forms. The 1985–86 figures are estimates; estimates for 1986–87 are not yet available.

Year	Housing subsidy per dwelling £	Net rate fund contribution per dwelling£
1978–79	198.27	40.73
1979–80	253.10	65.43
1980–81	281.36	86.77
1981–82	175.96	82.06
1982–83	90.61	88.47
1983–84	69.04	85.88
1984–85	83.00	92.06
1985–86	95.89	95.19