§ Mr. Skinnerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the amount of grant aid being given to each district and county council under regulations 4(1)(b) and 5(1)(c), respectively, of the Civil Defence
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Building work Equipment purchases County District County District £ £ £ £ Avon — 51,500 1,000 28,500 Bedfordshire 14,000 167,000 1,100 — Berkshire — 130,300 5,380 6,000 Buckinghamshire 14,000 38,500 11,800 — Cambridgeshire — 60,000 4,610 — Cheshire 92,700 — 4,060 — Cleveland — — 1,860 — Cornwall — 155,500 — — Cumbria 204,000 — 400 — Derbyshire — — 1,500 4,500 Devon 4,800 188,000 — — Dorset 30,400 46,000 9,500 11,500 Durham 7,000 28,000 1,150 — Dyfed — 35,000 — — Essex — — 11,000 45,000 South Glamorgan 17,000 — 4,930 — West Glamorgan 39,000 — 1,320 — Gloucestershire — 115,000 10,000 — Greater Manchester — — 2,708 — Gwent — 30,000 8,000 15,000 Hampshire — 23,500 — — Hertfordshire 32,880 — 3,520 — Humberside 20,000 10,000 4,470 — Isle of Wight — 9,000 560 — Kent 70,000 425,000 10,000 65,000 Lancashire 20,000 126,000 — — Leicestershire — 60,000 — — Lincolnshire — — 620 — London — 3,451 — 2,660 Merseyside 12,500 — — — Norfolk — 372,000 — — Northumberland 1,680 — — — Nottinghamshire — 46,000 — — Oxfordshire — 253,300 3,000 21,200 Powys 460 — 1,020 — Shropshire — — 660 — Somerset 77,300 61,500 — — Staffordshire 49,973 97,000 — — Suffolk 13,250 2,000 — — Surrey 33,500 213,500 — — East Sussex 1,800 25,050 — 16,900 West Sussex 5,000 5,000 — — Tyne and Wear 2,000 166,781 5,852 — Wiltshire 4,600 60,680 — — North Yorkshire 8,200 50,000 — — (General Local Authority Functions) Regulations 1983 for establishing, equipping or maintaining emergency centres during the current financial year;
(2) if he will list those district and county councils which have applied for grant aid under regulations 4(1)(b) and 5(1)(c.) respectively of the Civil Defence (General Local Authority Functions) Regulations 1983 to establish, equip or maintain emergency centres during the current financial year.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe amount of grant aid to be paid to each county and district council for establishing and equipping emergency centres during the current financial year will not be known until audited claims have been received. However, county authorities have submitted estimates for 1987–88 as shown, and expenditure incurred in accordance with agreed estimates will be eligible for grant aid at 75 per cent. Expenditure on maintaining emergency centres is not eligible for civil defence grant aid.