§ Mr. Robin Cookasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing by local authority and for all England (a) the number of people employed in refuse collection in 1979–80 and the most recent available year and (b) the number of people employed in street cleansing in 1979–80 and the most recent available year.
§ Mrs. RumboldNumbers of staff employed by English local authorities on refuse collection and disposal are given below. Information for individual authorities could only be given at disproportionate cost. Information concerning numbers of staff employed in street cleansing is not available centrally.
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Local authority staff employed in refuse collection and disposal (England) June 1979 June 1985 Full-time 47,602 37,800 Part-time 208 220 Total Numbers (FT and PT) 47,810 38,020 Full-time Equivalent 47,722 37,898
§ Mr. Robin Cookasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing by local authority and for all England (a) the most recent and penultimate grant-related expenditure assessment for refuse collection and the percentage change and (b) the most recent and penultimate grant-related expenditure assessment for street cleansing and the percentage change.
§ Mrs. RumboldGrant-related expenditure assessments for refuse collection in 1985–86 and 1986–87 are shown in the table. There is no separate assessment for street cleansing, which, for grant related expenditure purposes, is treated as part of environmental health.
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Refuse Collection—Grant-related Expenditure Authority 1985–86 1986–87 Change £ million £ million per cent. GREATER LONDON City of London 2.049 2.035 -0.6 Camden 3.300 3.110 -5.8 Greenwich 2.312 2.170 -6.2 Hackney 2.708 2.351 -13.2 Hammersmith and Fulham 2.398 2.157 -10.1 Islington 2.727 2.451 -10.1 Kensington and Chelsea 2.506 2.447 -2.4 Lambeth 3.584 3.228 -9.9 Lewisham 2.634 2.454 -6.8 Southwark 3.370 3.102 -8.0 Tower Hamlets 2.142 1.954 -8.8 Wandsworth 3.275 2.939 -10.2 Westminster 5.653 5.490 -2.9 Barking and Dagenham 1.700 1.569 -7.7 Barnet 2.778 2.598 -6.5 Bexley 1.968 1.829 -7.1 Brent 2.900 2.567 -11.5 Bromley 2.641 2.525 -4.4 Croydon 3.285 3.015 -8.2 Ealing 3.008 2.727 -9.4 Enfield 2.602 2.392 -8.1 Haringey 2.392 2.150 -10.1 Harrow 1.890 1.737 -8.1 Havering 1.987 1.863 -6.2 Hillingdon 2.270 2.159 -4.9 Hounslow 2.243 2.118 -5.6 Kingston-upon-Thames 1.437 1.354 -5.8 Merton 1.770 1.652 -6.7 Newham 2.642 2.279 -13.7 Redbridge 2.174 1.985 -8.7 Richmond-upon-Thames 1.651 1.588 -3.8 Sutton 1.682 1.557 -7.4 Waltham Forest 2.336 2.114 -9.5 GREATER MANCHESTER Bolton 2.243 2.141 -4.5 Bury 1.378 1.335 -3.1 Manchester 5.048 4.748 -5.9 Oldham 1.982 1.887 -4.8 Rochdale 1.671 1.616 -3.3 Salford 2.263 2.138 -5.5 Stockport 2.433 2.316 -4.8 Tameside 1.814 1.733 -4.5 Trafford 1.986 1.883 -5.2 Wigan 2.429 2.337 -3.8 399W
Authority 1985–86 1986–87 Change £ million £ million per cent. MERSEYSIDE Knowsley 1.394 1.284 -7.9 Liverpool 5.383 4.944 -8.2 St. Helens 1.520 1.447 -4.8 Sefton 2.400 2.254 -6.1 Wirral 2.866 2.706 -5.6 South Yorkshire Barnsley 1.777 1.733 -2.4 Doncaster 2.284 2.244 -1.8 Rotherham 1.949 1.907 -2.2 Sheffield 5.168 4.910 -5.0 Tyne and Wear Gateshead 1.912 1.831 -4.2 Newcastle upon Tyne 3.070 2.928 -4.6 North Tyneside 1.781 1.716 -3.7 South Tyneside 1.466 1.381 -5.8 Sunderland 2.601 2.462 -5.4 West Midlands Birmingham 10.030 9.288 -7.4 Coventry 2.974 2.779 -6.6 Dudley 2.544 2.414 -5.1 Sandwell 2.921 2.730 -6.5 Solihull 1.558 1.469 -5.7 Walsall 2.228 2.103 -5.6 Wolverhampton 2.401 2.240 -6.7 West Yorkshire Bradford 3.987 3.791 -4.9 Calderdale 1.635 1.598 -2.3 Kirklees 3.079 3.010 -2.2 Leeds 6.342 6.112 -3.6 Wakefield 2.515 2.473 -1.7 Avon Bath 0.826 0.790 -4.4 Bristol 4.018 3.757 -6.5 Kingswood 0.672 0.621 -7.7 Northavon 0.954 0.924 -3.2 Wansdyke 0.563 0.548 -2.6 Woodspring 1.295 1.272 -1.8 Bedfordshire North Bedfordshire 1.124 1.075 -4.4 Luton 1.525 1.403 -8.0 Mid Bedfordshire 0.709 0.705 -0.5 South Bedfordshire 0.835 0.800 -4.3 Berkshire Bracknell 0.740 0.707 -4.4 Newbury 0.928 0.919 -1.0 Reading 1.319 1.228 -6.9 Slough 0.974 0.900 -7.6 Windsor and Maidenhead 1.085 1.046 -3.6 Wokingham 0.808 0.817 1.1 Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Vale 1.040 1.007 -3.1 South Bucks 0.466 0.462 -0.8 Chiltern 0.641 0.624 -2.5 Milton Keynes 1.153 1.166 1.2 Wycombe 1.182 1.138 -3.7 Cambridgeshire Cambridge 0.985 0.943 -4.3 East Cambridgeshire 0.429 0.419 -2.2 Fenland 0.568 0.555 -2.4 Huntingdon 0.969 0.954 -1.5 Peterborough 1.266 1.240 -2.0 South Cambridgeshire 0.772 0.764 -1.1 Cheshire Chester 1.024 0.987 -3.6 400W
Authority 1985–86 1986–87 Change £ million £ million per cent Congleton 0.608 0.602 -1.0 Crewe and Nantwich 0.881 0.849 -3.6 Ellesmere Port and Neston 0.727 0.688 -5.3 Halton 1.023 0.977 -4.4 Macclesfield 1.208 1.175 -2.7 Vale Royal 0.860 0.844 -1.9 Warrington 1.465 1.432 -2.2 Cleveland Hartlepool 0.853 0.789 -7.5 Langbaurgh 1.215 1.180 -2.9 Middlesbrough 1.383 1.263 -8.7 Stockton-on-Tees 1.501 1.432 -4.6 Cornwall Caradon 0.581 0.570 -1.9 Carrick 0.704 0.693 -1.6 Kerrier 0.687 0.679 -1.1 North Cornwall 0.637 0.607 -4.8 Penwith 0.513 0.509 -0.8 Restormel 0.654 0.646 -1.2 Cumbria Allerdale 0.850 0.802 -5.7 Barrow in Furness 0.651 0.628 -3.5 Carlisle 0.962 0.898 -6.6 Copeland 0.607 0.578 -4.7 Eden 0.500 0.430 -14.1 South Lakeland 0.897 0.847 -5.6 Derbyshire Amber Valley 0.886 0.872 -1.7 Bolsover 0.523 0.519 -0.8 Chesterfield 0.895 0.875 -2.2 Derby 2.055 1.965 -4.4 Erewash 0.814 0.796 -2.2 High Peak 0.644 0.625 -3.0 North East Derbyshire 0.674 0.663 -1.7 South Derbyshire 0.487 0.478 -1.8 West Derbyshire 0.556 0.537 -3.4 Devon East Devon 0.978 0.958 -2.0 Exeter 0.924 0.878 -5.1 North Devon 0.686 0.654 -4.6 Plymouth 2.173 2.012 -7.4 South Hams 0.637 0.619 -2.9 Teignbridge 0.811 0.801 -1.2 Mid Devon 0.484 0.460 -4.9 Torbay 1.003 0.985 -1.9 Torridge 0.454 0.425 -6.3 West Devon 0.399 0.363 -8.9 Dorset Bournemouth 1.406 1.354 -3.7 Christchurch 0.387 0.388 0.4 North Dorset 0.405 0.390 -3.6 Poole 1.119 1.106 -1.2 Purbeck 0.335 0.329 -2.0 West Dorset 0.745 0.718 -3.5 Weymouth and Portland 0.459 0.446 -3.0 Wimborne 0.556 0.562 1.0 Durham Chester-le-Street 0.378 0.371 -2.0 Darlington 0.946 0.893 -5.6 Derwentside 0.693 0.675 -2.6 Durham 0.703 0.685 -2.5 Easington 0.818 0.801 -2.0 Sedgefield 0.730 0.709 -2.9 Teesdale 0.246 0.218 -11.5 Wear Valley 0.547 0526 -3.9 East Sussex Brighton 1.624 1.532 -5.7 Eastbourne 0.775 0.759 -2.0 401W
Authority 1985–86 1986–87 Change £ million £ million per cent. Hastings 0.756 0.732 -3.1 Hove 0.992 0.943 -5.0 Lewes 0.675 0.671 -0.5 Rother 0.718 0.708 -1.5 Wealden 0.933 0.921 -1.4 Essex Basildon 1.257 1.222 -2.8 Braintree 0.870 0.855 -1.8 Brentwood 0.549 0.534 -2.8 Castle Point 0.654 0.613 -6.2 Chelmsford 1.138 1.116 -2.0 Colchester 1.110 1.087 -2.1 Epping Forest 0.902 0.876 -2.8 Harlow 0.714 0.655 -8.3 Maldon 0.373 0.369 -1.0 Rochford 0.539 0.521 -3.4 Southend-on-Sea 1.542 1.465 -5.0 Tendring 1.058 1.053 -0.5 Thurrock 0.989 0.962 -2.7 Uttlesford 0.455 0.444 -2.6 Gloucestershire Cheltenham 0.853 0.825 -3.3 Cotswold 0.612 0.581 -5.1 Forest of Dean 0.543 0.532 -2.0 Gloucester 0.847 0.796 -6.0 Stroud 0.787 0.779 -1.0 Tewkesbury 0.630 0.625 -0.8 Hampshire Basingstoke and Deane 1.075 1.030 -4.2 East Hampshire 0.664 0.661 -0.5 Eastleigh 0.747 0.740 -1.0 Foreham 0.679 0.669 -1.4 Gosport 0.671 0.638 -5.0 Hart 0.482 0.470 -2.5 Havant 0.915 0.879 -3.9 New Forest 1.226 1.218 -0.6 Portsmouth 2.002 1.806 -9.8 Rushmoor 0.622 0.569 -8.6 Southampton 2.047 1.898 -7.3 Test Valley 0.691 0.675 -2.4 Winchester 0.734 0.717 -2.3 Hereford and Worcester Bromsgrove 0.584 0.574 -1.6 Hereford 0.444 0.431 -2.8 Leominster 0.341 0.315 -7.7 Malvern Hills 0.674 0.651 -3.4 Redditch 0.561 0.550 -2.0 South Herefordshire 0.388 0.362 -6.7 Worcester 0.708 0.682 -3.7 Wychavon 0.737 0.722 -2.0 Wyre Forest 0.757 0.729 -3.7 Hertfordshire Broxbourne 0.640 0.613 -4.2 Dacorum 1.103 1.049 -4.9 East Hertfordshire 0.857 0.837 -2.4 Hertsmere 0.725 0.694 -4.3 North Hertfordshire 0.863 0.840 -2.7 St. Albans 0.983 0.945 -3.9 Stevenage 0.649 0.602 -7.1 Three Rivers 0.579 0.554 -4.3 Watford 0.775 0.712 -8.2 Welwyn Hatfield 0.796 0.771 -3.2 Humberside Beverley 0.829 0.807 -2.6 Boothferry 0.506 0.479 -5.2 Cleethorpes 0.561 0.524 -6.6 Glanford 0.517 0.501 -3.2 Great Grimsby 0.910 0.844 -7.3 Holderness 0.377 0.362 -4.0 Kingston upon Hull 2.687 2.512 -6.5 402W
Authority 1985–86 1986–87 Change £ million £ million per cent. East Yorkshire 0.683 0.650 -4.8 Scunthorpe 0.626 0.593 -5.3 Isle of Wight Medina 0.615 0.608 -1.1 South Wight 0.423 0.420 -.5 Kent Ashford 0.752 0.719 -4.4 Canterbury 1.017 1.006 -1.1 Dartford 0.651 0.621 -4.6 Dover 0.888 0.861 -3.0 Gillingham 0.769 0.708 -7.9 Gravesham 0.754 0.702 -6.9 Maidstone 1.049 1.010 -3.7 Rochester upon Medway 1.268 1.190 -6.2 Sevenoaks 0.807 0.787 -2.5 Shepway 0.797 0.779 -2.3 Swale 0.900 0.886 -1.7 Thanet 1.111 1.070 -3.6 Tonbridge and Malling 0.745 0.737 -1.2 Tunbridge Wells 0.794 0.772 -2.8 Lancashire Blackburn 1.303 1.239 -5.6 Blackpool 1.431 1.310 -8.5 Burnley 0.888 0.843 -5.1 Chorley 0.676 0.668 -1.2 Fylde 0.624 0.614 -1.6 Hyndburn 0.671 0.643 -4.2 Lancaster 1.092 1.036 -5.1 Pendle 0.760 0.735 -3.3 Preston 1.268 1.206 -4.9 Ribble Valley 0.398 0.377 -5.3 Rossendale 0.502 0.498 -0.7 South Ribble 0.755 0.735 -2.6 West Lancashire 0.798 0.775 -3.0 Wyre 0.834 0.804 -3.6 Leicestershire Blaby 0.546 0.536 -2.0 Charnwood 1.033 1.024 -0.8 Harborough 0.461 0.443 -3.9 Hinckley and Bosworth 0.668 0.680 -1.1 Leicester 2.922 2.716 -7.1 Melton 0.349 0.333 -4.6 North West Leicestershire 0.619 0.610 -1.5 Oadby and Wigston 0.395 0.372 -5.7 Rutland 0.232 0.222 -4.4 Lincolnshire Boston 0.463 0.448 -3.3 East Lindsey 1.008 0.963 -4.5 Lincoln 0.769 0.758 -1.3 North Kesteven 0.610 0.585 -4.0 South Holland 0.526 0.511 -2.8 South Kesteven 0.842 0.811 -3.8 West Lindsey 0.620 0.581 -6.2 Norfolk Breckland 0.830 0.798 -3.9 Broadland 0.723 0.702 -2.8 Great Yarmouth 0.788 0.775 -1.6 North Norfolk 0.804 0.788 -2.0 Norwich 1.391 1.332 -4.2 South Norfolk 0.730 0.720 -1.3 King's Lynn and West Norfolk 1.080 1.043 -3.4 Northamptonshire Corby 0.451 0.424 -5.9 Daventry 0.455 0.436 -4.2 East Northamptonshire 0.509 0.493 -3.1 Kettering 0.625 0.600 -3.9 Northampton 1.541 1.486 -3.5 South Northamptonshire 0.461 0.451 -2.1 Wellingborough 0.519 0.507 -2.4 403W
Authority 1985–86 1986–87 Change £ million £ million per cent. Northumberland Alnwick 0.317 0.280 -11.7 Berwick-upon-Tweed 0.309 0.276 -10.9 Blyth Valley 0.617 0.562 -8.9 Castle Morpeth 0.409 0.391 -4.5 Tynedale 0.574 0.500 -13.0 Wansbeck 0.512 0.496 -3.3 North Yorkshire Craven 0.467 0.431 -7.8 Hambleton 0.613 0.578 -5.7 Harrogate 1.207 1.155 -4.3 Richmondshire 0.385 0.344 -10.8 Ryedale 0.711 0.666 -6.3 Scarborough 0.957 0.922 -3.7 Selby 0.645 0.639 -1.1 York 1.039 0.985 -5.2 Nottinghamshire Ashfield 0.880 0.867 -1.5 Bassetlaw 0.848 0.830 -2.1 Broxtone 0.862 0.828 -3.9 Gedling 0.850 0.809 -4.8 Mansfield 0.823 0.800 -2.9 Newark 0.832 0.815 -2.1 Nottingham 2.953 2.782 -5.8 Rushcliffe 0.687 0.672 -2.3 Oxfordshire Cherwell 0.883 0.852 -3.5 Oxford 1.100 1.018 -7.5 South Oxfordshire 0.909 0.885 -2.6 Vale of White Horse 0.767 0.752 -2.0 West Oxfordshire 0.625 0.608 -2.7 Shropshire Bridgnorth 0.385 0.365 -5.2 North Shropshire 0.396 0.377 -4.8 Oswestry 0.262 0.255 -2.8 Shrewsbury and Atcham 0.763 0.747 -2.0 South Shropshire 0.351 0.320 -8.9 The Wrekin 1.055 1.024 -3.0 Somerset Mendip 0.740 0.719 -2.8 Sedgemoor 0.733 0.713 -2.6 Taunton Deane 0.769 0.753 -2.0 West Somerset 0.317 0.296 -6.5 South Somerset 1.137 1.113 -2.1 Staffordshire Cannock Chase 0.673 0.640 -4.9 East Staffordshire 0.830 0.795 -4.2 Lichfield 0.644 0.617 -4.1 Newcastle-under-Lyme 0.930 0.899 -3.4 South Staffordshire 0.645 0.643 -0.4 Stafford 0.969 0.929 -4.1 Staffordshire Moorland 0.676 0.659 -2.5 Stoke-on-Trent 2.375 2.280 -4.0 Tamworth 0.496 0.468 -5.6 Suffolk Babergh 0.586 0.570 -2.7 Forest Heath 0.432 0.424 -1.8 Ipswich 1.145 1.088 -5.0 Mid Suffolk 0.572 0.553 -3.3 St. Edmundsbury 0.741 0.713 -3.8 Suffolk Coastal 0.847 0.828 -2.2 Waveney 0.924 0.909 -1.7 Surrey Elmbridge 0.950 0.927 -2.4 Epsom and Ewell 0.554 0.520 -6.2 Guildford 1.088 0.984 -2.3 Mole Valley 0.632 0.623 -1.4
Authority 1985–86 1986–87 Change £ million £ million per cent. Reigate and Banstead 0.938 0.910 -3.0 Runnymede 0.553 0.539 -2.6 Spelthorne 0.791 0.762 -3.8 Surrey Heath 0.554 538 -2.9 Tandridge 0.534 0.519 -2.7 Waverley 0.830 0.818 -1.4 Woking 0.689 0.674 -2.1 Warwickshire North Warwickshire 0.440 0.433 -1.6 Nuneaton and Bedworth 0.842 0.812 -3.5 Rugby 0.710 0.682 -4.0 Stratford on Avon 0.781 0.764 -2.3 Warwick 0.982 0.963 -2.0 West Sussex Adur 0.498 0.486 -2.5 Arun 1.119 1.110 -0.9 Chichester 0.863 0.843 -2.3 Crawley 0.817 0.780 -4.6 Horsham 0.783 0.773 -1.3 Mid Sussex 0.857 0.832 -2.9 Worthing 0.961 0.928 -3.4 Wiltshire Kennet 0.500 0.474 -5.2 North Wiltshire 0.790 0.767 -3.0 Salisbury 0.824 0.787 -4.5 Thamesdown 1.397 1.354 -3.1 West Wiltshire 0.808 0.791 -2.1 All Purpose Authorities Isles of Scilly 0.042 0.028 -33.5 England Total 429.300 408.500 -4.8
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has as to how much money was spent (a) in total and (b) per month on refuse disposal in London during the 12 months prior to the abolition of the Greater London Council, as to how much money has been spent (i) in total and (ii) per month on refuse disposal in London during April and May, and as to how much money is expected to be spent on refuse disposal in London (1) in total and (2) per month in the next 10 months.
§ Mrs. RumboldA budget for total revenue expenditure by the Greater London Council in 1985–86 on waste disposal of £72,090,000 was quoted in the submission of the Association of London Authorities on the future organisation of waste disposal in London. An estimate of £72.91 million for revenue expenditure in 1985–86 on this service was contained in another document circulated by the Greater London Council. Otherwise my Department does not have this information.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has as to how much money was spent (a) in total and (b) per month on refuse disposal in Tyne and Wear, Merseyside, West Midlands, South and West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester metropolitan counties during the 12 months prior to their abolition, as to how much money has been spent (i) in total and (ii) per month on refuse disposal in these areas during April and May, and as to how much money is expected to he spent on refuse disposal (1) in total and (2) per month in the next 10 months.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe revenue expenditure and income estimates for 1985–86 for Greater Manchester, South404W Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands and West Yorkshire county councils are summarised on pages 13 and 14 of "Waste Disposal Statistics 1985–86 Estimates", published by the statistics information service of the Chartered institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Merseyside county council (which did not co-operate in this publication) returned a figure of £5.5 million at November 1984 prices to my Department as its net revenue expenditure in 1985–86 on waste disposal. Otherwise my Department does not have this information.