§ Mr. Sumbergasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he is yet in a position to give further guidance to local authorities about the recycling of rate support grant in 1986–87 as a result of the latest information on local authority budgets.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerIn the debate on the RSG settlement in January I provided the House with purely illustrative tables showing the additional grant each authority in England could receive if £400 million of grant was available to be recycled in 1986–87.
On the evidence now available to me about local authority budgets in 1986–87, I am satisfied that there will be a grant underclaim of at least £500 million. I am willing to guarantee that authorities in receipt of grant at budgeted expenditure will receive at least the sums of grant shown in the following table, in addition to their entitlement 191W under the rate support grant settlement, as a result of grant recycling. All prudent authorities will wish to take this into account in reaching their decisions on budgets and rates for 1986–87. I have written to the local authority associations giving them this information.
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Effect on grant entitlements of £500 million recycling Extra grant after recycling (£ million) Greater London City of London 0.000 Camden 0.000 Greenwich 0.579 Hackney 0.705 Hammersmith and Fulham 0.876 Islington 1.004 Kensington and Chelsea 1.969 Lambeth 1.160 Lewisham 0.739 Southwark 1.123 Tower Hamlets 0.573 Wandsworth 1.115 Westminster 0.000 Barking and Dagenham 1.328 Barnet 3.119 Bexley 1.605 Brent 2.605 Bromley 2.546 Croydon 3.687 Ealing 2.934 Enfield 2.377 Haringey 1.630 Harrow 1.798 Havering 1.906 Hillingdon 0.000 Hounslow 2.771 Kingston-upon-Thames 1.463 Merton 1.541 Newham 1.837 Redbridge 1.837 Richmond-upon-Thames 1.610 Sutton 1.539 Waltham Forest 1.430 ILEA 0.000 London Fire and CD Authority 0.000 Metropolitan Police 9.836 Greater Manchester Bolton 2.111 Bury 1.409 Manchester 5.352 Oldham 1.747 Rochdale 1.514 Salford 2.301 Stockport 2.897 Tameside 1.673 Trafford 2.815 Wigan 2.318 Greater Manchester Police Authority 1.454 Greater Manchester Fire and CD Authority 0.681 Greater Manchester Transport Authority 1.292 Total Greater Manchester 27.565 Merseyside Knowsley 1.409 Liverpool 4.693 St. Helens 1.562 Sefton 2.441
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Extra grant after recycling (£ million) Wirral 2.930 Merseyside Police Authority 0.840 Merseyside Fire and CD Authority 0.397 Merseyside Transport Authority 0.000 Total Merseyside 14.271 South Yorkshire Barnsley 1.313 Doncaster 2.004 Rotherham 1.614 Sheffield 4.449 South Yorkshire Police Authority 0.616 South Yorkshire Fire and CD Authority 0.277 South Yorkshire Transport Authority 0.000 Total South Yorkshire 10.272 Tyne and Wear Gateshead 1.482 Newcastle upon Tyne 2.894 North Tyneside 1.466 South Tyneside 1.050 Sunderland 2.183 Northumbria Police Authority 0.719 Tyne and Wear Fire & CD Authority 0.267 Tyne and Wear Transport Authority 0.503 Total Tyne and Wear 10.564 West Midlands Birmingham 13.506 Coventry 3.195 Dudley 3.290 Sandwell 3.549 Solihull 2.209 Walsall 2.788 Wolverhampton 3.125 West Midlands Police Authority 1.805 West Midlands Fire & CD Authority 0.856 West Midlands Transport Authority 1.602 Total West Midlands 35.925 West Yorkshire Bradford 3.623 Calderdale 1.260 Kirklees 2.489 Leeds 6.291 Wakefield 2.320 West Yorkshire Police Authority 0.968 West Yorkshire Fire & CD Authority 0.433 West Yorkshire Transport Authority 0.812 Total West Yorkshire 18.195 Shire Counties Avon 9.415 Bedfordshire 5.753 Berkshire 9.199 Buckinghamshire 7.403 Cambridgeshire 6.496 Cheshire 9.798 Cleveland 6.307 Cornwall 3.665 Cumbria 3.796 Derbyshire 8.609 Devon 8.669 Dorset 6.409 Durham 4.215
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Extra grant after recycling (£ million) East Sussex 7.432 Essex 16.855 Gloucestershire 4.811 Hampshire 15.434 Hereford and Worcester 6.548 Hertfordshire 11.820 Humberside 7.035 Isle of Wight 0.959 Kent 14.113 Lancashire 10.703 Leicestershire 8.569 Lincolnshire 4.664 Norfolk 7.221 Northamptonshire 5.515 Northumberland 2.383 North Yorkshire 5.629 Nottinghamshire 9.648 Oxfordshire 5.928 Shropshire 3.475 Somerset 3.862 Staffordshire 9.209 Suffolk 5.816 Surrey 11.881 Warwickshire 4.956 West Sussex 7.656 Wiltshire 4.668 Avon Bath 0.000 Bristol 0.599 Kingswood 0.098 Northavon 0.171 Wansdyke 0.116 Woodspring 0.192 Bedfordshire North Bedfordshire 0.217 Luton 0.340 Mid Bedfordshire 0.137 South Bedfordshire 0.091 Berkshire Bracknell 0.190 Newbury 0.197 Reading 0.289 Slough 0.302 Windsor and Maidenhead 0.267 Wokingham 0.189 Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Vale 0.243 South Bucks 0.000 Chiltern 0.000 Milton Keynes 0.245 Wycombe 0.339 Cambridgeshire Cambridge 0.291 East Cambridgeshire 0.079 Fenland 0.096 Huntingdonshire 0.171 Peterborough 0.207 South Cambridgeshire 0.208 Cheshire Chester 0.174 Congleton 0.103 Crewe and Nantwich 0.122 Ellesmere Port and Neston 0.069 Halton 0.179 Macclesfield 0.222 Vale Royal 0.147 Warrington 0.261 Cleveland
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Extra grant after recycling (£ million) Hartlepool 0.119 Langbaurgh 0.211 Middlesbrough 0.163 Stockton-on-tees 0.273 Cornwall Caradon 0.068 Carrick 0.086 Kerrier 0.093 North Cornwall 0.070 Penwith 0.058 Restormel 0.101 Cumbria Allerdale 0.084 Barrow in Furness 0.067 Carlisle 0.101 Copeland 0.068 Eden 0.042 South Lakeland 0.097 Derbyshire Amber Valley 0.115 Bolsover 0.061 Chesterfield 0.122 Derby 0.315 Erewash 0.120 High Peak 0.089 North East Derbyshire 0.085 South Derbyshire 0.098 West Derbyshire 0.067 Devon East Devon 0.122 Exeter 0.195 North Devon 0.074 Plymouth 0.413 South Hams 0.065 Teignbridge 0.099 Mid Devon 0.052 Torbay 0.189 Torridge 0.036 West Devon 0.039 Dorset Bournemouth 0.284 Christchurch 0.062 North Dorset 0.058 Poole 0.215 Purbeck 0.063 West Dorset 0.099 Weymouth and Portland 0.075 Wimborne 0.083 Durham Chester-le-Street 0.040 Darlington 0.117 Derwentside 0.062 Durham 0.079 Easington 0.076 Sedgefield 0.066 Teesdale 0.021 Wear Valley 0.045 East Sussex Brighton 0.255 Eastbourne 0.150 Hastings 0.114 Hove 0.156 Lewes 0.113 Rother 0.093 Wealden 0.127 Essex Basildon 0.000
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Extra grant after recycling (£ million) Braintree 0.152 Brentwood 0.103 Castle Point 0.117 Chelmsford 0.303 Colchester 0.261 Epping Forest 0.120 Harlow 0.000 Maldon 0.081 Rochford 0.101 Southend-on-Sea 0.284 Tendring 0.148 Thurrock 0.000 Uttlesford 0.082 Gloucestershire Cheltenham 0.176 Cotswold 0.090 Forest of Dean 0.064 Gloucester 0.171 Stroud 0.118 Tewkesbury 0.123 Hampshire Basingstoke and Deane 0.209 East Hampshire 0.109 Eastleigh 0.146 Fareham 0.131 Gosport 0.112 Hart 0.099 Havant 0.208 New Forest 0.206 Portsmouth 0.237 Rushmoor 0.123 Southampton 0.342 Test Valley 0.134 Winchester 0.126 Hereford and Worcester Bromsgrove 0.130 Hereford 0.071 Leominster 0.035 Malvern Hills 0.093 Redditch 0.115 South Herefordshire 0.054 Worcester 0.132 Wychavon 0.137 Wyre Forest 0.113 Hertfordshire Broxbourne 0.119 Dacorum 0.224 East Hertfordshire 0.167 Hertsmere 0.055 North Hertfordshire 0.179 St. Albans 0.231 Stevenage 0.000 Three Rivers 0.125 Watford 0.167 Welwyn Hatfield 0.000 Humberside Beverley 0.119 Boothferry 0.054 Cleethorpes 0.087 Glanford 0.089 Great Grimsby 0.148 Holderness 0.053 Kingston upon Hull 0.377 East Yorkshire 0.072 Scunthorpe 0.078 Isle of Wight Medina 0.086 South Wight 0.062 Kent Ashford 0.110
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Extra grant after recycling (£ million) Canterbury 0.141 Dartford 0.098 Dover 0.120 Gillingham 0.000 Gravesham 0.121 Maidstone 0.173 Roschester upon Medway 0.267 Sevenoaks 0.131 Shepway 0.120 Swale 0.123 Thanet 0.156 Tonbridge 0.132 Tunbridge Wells 0.118 Lancashire Blackburn 0.124 Blackpool 0.227 Burnley 0.066 Chorley 0.088 Fylde 0.086 Hyndburn 0.067 Lancaster 0.136 Pendle 0.061 Preston 0.157 Ribble Valley 0.045 Rossendale 0.041 South Ribble 0.102 West Lancashire 0.125 Wyre 0.100 Leicestershire Blaby 0.098 Charnwood 0.227 Harborough 0.075 Hinckley and Bosworth 0.127 Leicester 0.431 Melton 0.053 North West Leicestershire 0.101 Oadby and Wigston 0.087 Rutland 0.038 Lincolnshire Boston 0.063 East Lindsey 0.122 Lincoln 0.118 North Kesteven 0.077 South Holland 0.063 South Kesteven 0.131 West Lindsey 0.075 Norfolk Breckland 0.118 Broadland 0.105 Great Yarmouth 0.116 North Norfolk 0.107 Norwich 0.216 South Norfolk 0.106 King's Lynn and West Norfolk 0.153 Northamptonshire Corby 0.083 Daventry 0.089 East Northamptonshire 0.092 Kettering 0.080 Northampton 0.375 South Northamptonshire 0.089 Wellingborough 0.083 Northumberland Alnwick 0.030 Berwick-upon-Tweed 0.029 Blyth Vally 0.065 Castle Morpeth 0.061 Tynedale 0.054 Wansbeck 0.065 North Yorkshire
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Extra grant after recycling (£ million) Craven 0.044 Hambleton 0.079 Harrogate 0.145 Richmondshire 0.042 Ryedale 0.076 Scarborough 0.101 Selby 0.092 York 0.155 Nottinghamshire Ashfield 0.107 Bassetlaw 0.000 Broxtowe 0.122 Gedling 0.116 Mansfield 0.076 Newark and Sherwood 0.113 Nottingham 0.556 Rushcliffe 0.130 Oxfordshire Cherwell 0.230 Oxford 0.279 South Oxfordshire 0.219 Vale of White Horse 0.243 West Oxfordshire 0.106 Shropshire Bridgnorth 0.062 North Shropshire 0.050 Oswestry 0.031 Shrewsbury and Atcham 0.118 South Shropshire 0.030 The Wrekin 0.153 Somerset Mendip 0.113 Sedgemore 0.101 Taunton Deane 0.111 West Somerset 0.065 South Somerset 0.177 Staffordshire Cannock Chase 0.112 East Staffordshire 0.136 Lichfield 0.129 Newcastle-under-Lyme 0.135 South Staffordshire 0.130 Stafford 0.170 Staffordshire Moorlands 0.097 Stoke-on-Trent 0.327 Tamworth 0.083 Suffolk Babergh 0.090 Forest Heath 0.056 Ipswich 0.219 Mid Suffolk 0.076 St. Edmundsbury 0.131 Suffolk Coastal 0.134 Waveney 0.119 Surrey Elmbridge 0.000 Epsom and Ewell 0.000 Guildford 0.253 Mole Valley 0.127 Reigate and Banstead 0.000 Runnymede 0.131 Spelthorne 0.021 Surrey Heath 0.112 Tandridge 0.115 Waverley 0.177 Woking 0.151 Warwickshire
Extra grant after recycling (£ million) North Warwickshire 0.079 Nuneaton and Bedworth 0.117 Rugby 0.121 Stratford on Avon 0.149 Warwick 0.193 West Sussex Adur 0.080 Arun 0.162 Chichester 0.133 Crawley 0.000 Horsham 0.134 Mid Sussex 0.161 Worthing 0.154 Wiltshire Kennet 0.068 North Wiltshire 0.103 Salisbury 0.138 Thamesdown 0.169 West Wiltshire 0.122 Isles of Scilly 0.030