§ Mr. Tom ClarkeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Monklands, West of 15 March,Official Report, columns 558–59, if he will list those local authorities which did, and those which did not, experience real expenditure increases on the personal social services, as indicated by the national personal social services current expenditure revaluation factor, of 3.5 per cent. or more, and by how much, during 1987–88.
§ Mr. NewtonThe information is given in the tables. Table 1 lists those local authorities whose budgeted personal social services expenditure for 1987–88 exceeded their estimated expenditure for 1986–87, uprated by the national personal social services current expenditure revaluation factor, by more than 3.5 per cent. and indicates the difference in cash terms. Table 2 lists those authorities whose expenditure increased by less than 3.5 per cent. on the same terms as table 1.
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Table 1 Amount by which budgetted expenditure for 1987–88 exceeded 3.5 per cent, increase over 1986–87 estimated expenditure uprated for PSS pay and prices Local authority £000s Barking and Dagenham 928 Barnet 774 Barnsley 463 Bedfordshire 325 Birmingham 1,159 Bolton 130 Buckinghamshire 419 Bury 149 Calderdale 713 Cambridgeshire 269 Cheshire 1,597 City of London 126 Cleveland 13 Cornwall 67 Croydon 1,250 Cumbria 1,167 Derbyshire 1,314 Doncaster 650 Dorset 843 Dudley 535 Durham 158 Ealing 2,198 Enfield 293 Gloucestershire 611 Hackney 8,684 Haringey 1,036 Havering 929 Hertfordshire 1,806 Hillingdon 1,590 Hounslow 617 Islington 5,313
Local authority £000s Kirklees 17 Leeds 3,454 Leicestershire 1,079 Lewisham 1,414 Liverpool 1,156 Manchester 766 Merton 69 Newcastle upon Tyne 803 Newham 514 North Tyneside 1,117 Northamptonshire 75 Northumberland 227 Oxfordshire 888 Rochdale 268 Rotherham 281 Salford 325 Sandwell 1,784 Sefton 1,483 Shropshire 587 Solihull 133 Somerset 106 South Tyneside 619 Suffolk 1,519 Surrey 1,728 Sutton 396 Tameside 143 Tower Hamlets 233 Trafford 889 Wakefield 964 Walsall 718 Waltham Forest 3,230 Warwickshire 352 West Sussex 561 Wigan 210 Wiltshire 505 Wirral 2,624 Wolverhampton 1,051 101W
Table 2 Amount by which budgetted expenditure for 1987–88 fell short of 3.5 per cent, increase over 1986–87 estimated expenditure uprated for PSS pay and prices. Local authority £000s Avon 2,589 Berkshire 21 Bexley 156 Bradford 401 Brent 1,353 Bromley 642 Camden 2,104 Coventry 1,507 Devon 781 East Sussex 384 Essex 930 Gateshead 1,384 Greenwhich 1,937 Hammersmith and Fulham 624 Hampshire 182 Harrow 1,494 Hereford and Worcester 637 Humberside 201 Isle of Wight 75 Isles of Scilly 13 Kensington and Chelsea 91 Kent 1,428 Kingston upon Thames 124 Knowsley 456 Lambeth 8,109 Lancashire 498 Lincolnshire 868 Norfolk 1,599 North Yorkshire 126 Nottinghamshire 2,401 Oldham 155 Redbridge 372
Local authority £000s Richmond upon Thames 549 Sheffield 1,729 Southwark 4,586 St. Helens 714 Staffordshire 356 Stockport 406 Sunderland 54 Wandsworth 1,864 Westminster 1,971