Urban Development Programme

HC Deb 25 February 1987 vol 111 cc262-3W

Mr. Alfred Morris

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish information on central Government expenditure on the urban development programme for all years since 1978–79, inclusive, aggregated for the standard United Kingdom regions, giving the information in absolute, indexed, and per capita forms.

Mr. John Patten

[pursuant to his answer, 24 February 1987]: The information requested for the urban programme is as follows:

	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	11985–86	21986–87	Population
Northern Region
absolute £ million	12.90	21.40	29.80	28.75	40.60	40.40	40.30	44.50	42.70
indexed £ million	25.06	35.60	41.80	36.70	48.30	46.00	44.00	45.80	42.70
per capita £	4.10	6.80	9.50	9.20	13.00	13.00	12.90	14.30	13.70	3,104,353
North West
absolute £ million	21.00	34.50	47.70	53.40	68.70	73.20	76.10	75.00	80.00
indexed £ million	40.80	57.40	66.90	68.10	81.80	83.30	83.10	77.30	80.00
per capita £	3.20	5.30	7.40	8.30	10.70	11.40	11.80	11.60	12.4	6,414,168
West Midlands
absolute £ million	11.60	19.30	26.50	27.70	41.90	36.50	44.20	42.30	44.10
indexed £ million	22.50	32.10	37.10	35.30	49.80	41.60	48.20	43.60	44.10
per capita £	2.20	3.70	5.10	5.30	8.10	7.00	8.50	8.20	8.50	5,148,385
Yorkshire and Humberside
absolute £ million	8.00	12.10	16.90	18.30	26.00	30.10	25.75	23.40	24.00
indexed £ million	15.50	20.10	23.70	14.60	30.90	34.30	28.10	24.10	24.00
per capita £	1.60	2.40	3.40	3.70	5.30	6.10	5.20	4.80	4.90	4,860,484
East Midlands
absolute £ million	5.00	7.50	10.40	10.60	15.20	14.50	13.20	14.40	12.80
indexed £ million	9.70	12.40	14.60	13.50	18.10	16.50	14.50	14.80	12.80
per capita £	1.50	2.30	3.20	3.30	4.70	4.50	4.10	4.50	4.00	3,819,187
Greater London
absolute £ million	32.00	52.90	64.60	67.70	73.05	72.00	84.60	68.10	56.70
indexed £ million	62.00	87.90	90.50	86.40	86.90	82.20	92.40	70.10	56.70
per capita £	4.70	7.80	9.60	10.00	10.80	10.70	12.60	10.10	8.40	6,713,165
South West
absolute £ million	0.90	1.50	1.70	2.00	2.80	3.40	3.80	2.50	1.90
indexed £ million	1.70	2.50	2.40	2.60	3.40	3.90	4.10	2.60	1.90
per capita £	0.20	0.30	0.30	0.40	0.60	0.70	0.80	0.50	0.40	4,348,908
South East
absolute £ million	1.00	1.65	1.80	2.25	2.85	3.55	5.00	2.10	0.70
indexed £ million	1.90	2.70	2.50	2.80	3.39	4.00	5.40	2.20	0.70
per capita £	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.20	0.20	0.30	0.40	0.20	—	10,082,591
Eastern
absolute £ million	1.10	1.70	1.90	2.30	2.90	4.00	3.10	1.00	0.30
indexed £ million	2.10	2.80	2.70	2.90	3.50	4.60	3.40	1.00	0.30
per capita £	0.50	0.90	1.00	1.20	1.50	2.10	1.60	0.50	0.10	1,871,635
1 Estimated outturn.
2 Allocations.

Indexed prices relate to 1986–87. All per capita figures are calculated on the basis of the population of the whole region in 1981. These should be treated with caution since Urban Programme funding is highly concentrated within regions on the districts of greatest need.