HC Deb 14 June 1988 vol 135 cc136-9W
Mr. Harry Greenway

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what expenditure has now been incurred or sanctioned by his Department for each local authority concerned on damage repairs and environmental resuscitation following the hurricane of 15 October 1987; how much of this is financed by(a) the National Exchequer, (b) local authorities themselves; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Howard

[holding answer 10 June 1988]: The Department has agreed to pay 75 per cent. of the amount by which a local authority's eligible expenditure under the special financial assistance scheme announced on 21 October 1987 exceeds the specified threshold for the authority. Such thresholds are calculated for each authority by reference to penny rate products. The amounts shown in the following list have been derived from the initial, unaudited claims submitted by local authorities, and may be subject to revision on receipt of final, audited claims. The first column of figures shows the total amount of expenditure, net of receipts, that the Department has provisionally accepted as eligible under the scheme. The second column lists the threshold

Total eligible expenditure net of receipts Threshold Eligible expenditure attracting grant
£ £ £
Non metropolitan counties
East Sussex 3,400,000 1,041,000 2,359,000
Essex 2,598,000 2,458,000 140,000
Isle of Wight 170,000 145,000 25,000
Kent 6,981,000 1,997,000 4,984,000
Suffolk 921,000 850,000 71,000
Surrey 5,770,000 1,872,000 3,898,000
West Sussex 6,728,000 1,087,000 5,641,000
London boroughs
Barking and Dagenham 766,000 262,000 504,000
Bexley 834,000 319,000 515,000
Bromley 1,805,000 518,000 1,287,000
Greenwich 460,000 175,000 285,000
Hackney 576,000 227,000 349,000
Lewisham 394,000 189,000 205,000
Merton 639,000 309,000 330,000
Sutton 738,000 297,000 441,000
Tower Hamlets 729,900 280,500 449,400
Wandsworth 596,000 242,000 354,000
Non metropolitan districts
Adur 235,000 13,000 222,000
Arun 91,000 26,000 65,000
Ashford 259,000 18,000 241,000
Babergh 86,000 15,000 71,000
Basildon 91,000 39,000 52,000
Basingstoke and Deane 78,000 34,000 44,000
Bournemouth 40,000 38,000 2,000
Bracknell 74,000 24,000 50,000
Braintree 175,000 24,000 151,000
Brentwood 332,000 20,000 312,000
Non metropolitan districts
Brighton 302,000 38,000 264,000
Broxbourne 46,000 19,000 27,000
Canterbury 310,457 23,325 287,457
Castlepoint 66,000 18,000 48,000
Chelmsford 80,000 39,000 41,000
Christchurch 121,000 10,000 111,000
Colchester 56,000 30,000 26,000
Dover 57,000 18,000 39,000
Eastbourne 174,000 21,000 153,000
East Hampshire 38,300 20,000 18,300
East Hertfordshire 39,000 27,000 12,000
Eastleigh 55,900 23,500 32,400
Elmbridge 347,000 35,000 312,000
Epsom and Ewell 50,000 18,000 32,000
Fareham 92,000 21,000 71,000
Forest Heath 25,000 10,000 15,000
Gillingham 44,875 16,650 28,225
Gosport 153,000 15,000 138,000
Gravesham 96,000 19,000 77,000
Great Yarmouth 35,000 18,000 17,000
Harlow 24,000 21,000 3,000
Hastings 433,000 15,000 418,000
Havant 38,000 25,000 13,000
Hertsmere 62,000 24,000 38,000
Horsham 200,000 23,000 177,000
Hove 164,000 23,000 141,000

amounts, which have been applied by the Department. The 75 per cent. Exchequer grant applies to what is left after deducting eligible expenditure up to the threshold (in the second column of figures) from the total eligible expenditure (in the first column), and the third column of figures lists for each authority the amount to which the grant applies. The amount to be paid by the Department is therefore 75 per cent. of the amounts in the third column of figures. Three other local authorities, Hammersmith and Fulham, Waltham Forest, Welwyn and Hatfield, have submitted claims which at 13 June were still being checked by the Department.

Total eligible expenditure net of receipts Threshold Eligible expenditure attracting grant
£ £ £
Ipswich 278,000 29,000 249,000
Lewes 70,500 19,000 51,500
Maidstone 247,000 27,000 220,000
Medina 59,096 12,630 46,466
Mid Suffolk 26,000 13,000 13,000
Mid Sussex 489,000 27,000 462,000
Mole Valley 97,000 19,000 78,000
New Forest 58,000 37,000 21,000
North Hertfordshire 47,000 29,000 18,000
Norwich 178,000 34,000 144,000
Poole 69,000 32,000 37,000
Portsmouth 136,000 41,000 95,000
Reigate and Banstead 76,000 30,000 46,000
Rochford 71,134 16,050 55,084
Rother 47,000 18,000 29,000
Non metropolitan districts
Rushmoor 31,777 19,000 12,777
Sevenoaks 478,000 21,000 457,000
Shepway 233,250 20,920 212,330
Southend 454,000 41,000 413,000
South Wight 273,000 9,000 264,000
Spelthorne 42,000 34,000 8,000
Stevenage 38.000 21,000 17,000
Suffolk Coastal 49,000 23,000 26,000
Swale 246,000 19,000 227,000
Tand ridge 382,000 16,000 366,000
Tendring 27,695 24,000 3,695
Thanet 286,000 23,000 263,000
Thurrock 93,000 41,000 52,000
Tonbridge and Mailing 49,000 21,000 28,000
Tunbridge Wells 353,000 19,200 333,900
Waveney 24,000 19,000 5,000
Waverley 78,000 27,000 51,000
Wealden 92,000 23,000 69,000
Woking 43,000 25,000 18,000
Worthing 196,000 22,000 174,000