HC Deb 21 May 1992 vol 208 cc193-5W
Mr. Betts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those local authorities which came within 1 per cent. of the expenditure criteria he laid down for charge capping for 1992–93.

Mr. Squire

There are 126 authorities-94 charging and 32 precepting authorities—which have set budgets for 1992–93 within 1 per cent. of the limit implied by the principles which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has adopted for community charge limitation for 1992–93. These are as follows:

Precepting authorities

  • Avon
  • Bedfordshire
  • Berkshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Cleveland
  • Cornwall
  • Cumbria
  • Derbyshire
  • Devon
  • Dorset
  • Durham
  • East Sussex
  • Hereford and Worcester
  • Hertfordshire
  • Humberside
  • Isle of Wight
  • Lancashire
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Norfolk
  • Northamptonshire
  • Northumberland
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Oxfordshire
  • Shropshire
  • Somerset
  • Staffordshire
  • Suffolk
  • Surrey
  • Wiltshire

Charging authorities

  • Adur
  • Barking and Dagenham
  • Barnet
  • Barnsley
  • Barrow-in-Furness
  • Birmingham
  • Blackburn
  • Bolton
  • Bradford
  • Brighton
  • Bristol
  • Burnley
  • Bury
  • Calderdale
  • Cambridge
  • Camden
  • Coventry
  • Crawley
  • Darlington
  • Derwentside
  • Doncaster
  • Dudley
  • Eastbourne
  • Enfield
  • Gateshead
  • Gloucester
  • Hackney
  • Hammersmith and Fulham
  • Haringey
  • Harlow
  • Harrow
  • Hartlepool
  • Hastings
  • Havering
  • Hillingdon
  • Hounslow
  • Hyndburn
  • Ipswich
  • Islington
  • Kingston upon Hull
  • Kingston upon Thames
  • Kirk lees
  • Knowsley
  • Leeds
  • Leicester
  • Lewisham
  • 195
  • Liverpool
  • Manchester
  • Merton
  • Milton Keynes
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Newham
  • North Tyneside
  • Norwich
  • Nottingham
  • Oxford
  • Pendle
  • Plymouth
  • Preston
  • Reading
  • Richmond upon Thames
  • Rochdale
  • Rossendale
  • Rotherham
  • Salford
  • Sandwell
  • Sefton
  • Sheffield
  • Shepway
  • Solihull
  • South Tyneside
  • Southampton
  • Southwark
  • St. Helens
  • Stevenage
  • Stockport
  • Sunderland
  • Sutton
  • Tameside
  • Thurrock
  • Tower Hamlets
  • Wakefield
  • Walsall
  • Waltham Forest
  • Wansbeck
  • Watford
  • Wear Valley
  • Welwyn Hatfield
  • West Wiltshire
  • Wigan
  • Wirral
  • Wolverhampton
  • York

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he intends to make a statement before the summer recess on the outline 1993–94 financial settlement for local authorities.

Mr. Redwood

Although it has been the custom to announce in July each year the Government's proposals for total standard spending and aggregate external finance, there are exceptional circumstances this year in relation to the revenue support grant settlement for 1993–94. First, in fixing these aggregates we shall want to take into account the implications for the level of council tax and for the transitional arrangements. These will in part turn on the results of the valuation of properties, which will not be available until September. Secondly, we shall want to look closely at the financing of community care. We have therefore decided to postpone an announcement of total standard spending and aggregate external finance until the autumn when our detailed proposals for the revenue support grant settlement will also be announced. I believe that it is to the advantage of local government that we should postpone these decisions this year. Similar considerations apply in Scotland and Wales and my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales will also be postponing decisions on the aggregates of the settlements for Scotland and Wales until the autumn.

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