HC Deb 24 May 1993 vol 225 cc367-8W
Mr. Nigel Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list for the Isle of Wight, Cornwall, Somerset and each county council where no political party has overall control,(a) the population, (b) the capital budget for 1993–94 and (c) the revenue budget for 1993–94.

Mr. Robin Squire

[holding answer 21 May 1993]The available information is as follows:

Liberal-Democrat controlled county councils
Total population1 Total capital budget 1993–94 £ million Total revenue budget 1993–942 £ million
Isle of Wight 126,593 9.018 78.453
Cornwall 473,171 35.252 290.095
Somerset 469,373 43.900 271.355

County councils with no political party in overall control
Total population1 Total capital budget 1993–94 £ million Total revenue budget 1993–942 £ million
Avon 962,037 39.830 570.767
Bedfordshire 534,276 20.179 352.125
Berkshire 752,471 46.558 465.589
Cambridgeshire 669,898 31.262 389.217
Cheshire 966,590 79.857 587.400
Cumbria 489,673 27.694 310.634
Devon 1,040,021 44.238 594.059
Dorset 663,091 n.a. 353.565
East Sussex 716,077 40.929 416.519
Essex 1,548,329 64.256 925.046
Gloucestershire 538,779 33.880 316.889
Hampshire 1,576,295 110.035 875.267
Hereford and Worcester 686,039 17.151 372.260
Hertfordshire 991,515 39.450 594.557
Kent 1,538,943 121.700 964.833
Leicestershire 890,832 37.525 554.413
Lincolnshire 592,556 47.999 357,829
Norfolk 759,363 41.617 442.260
North Yorkshire 720,626 43.408 396.419
Oxfordshire 579,650 37.310 325.369
Shropshire 412,534 25.905 241.354
Suffolk 661,853 36.850 373.373

Total population1 Total capital budget 1993–94 £ million Total revenue budget 1993–942 £ million
Surrey 1,033,611 75.512 535.000
Warwickshire 489,850 23.864 288.312
West Sussex 715,617 47.549 403.100
Wiltshire 577,399 22.813 324.509

Notes:

n. a. = information not yet returned by the authority.

1 Resident population at 30 June 1991 (provisional estimate, as used in the 1993–94 Settlement).

2 Net revenue expenditure as returned by authorities on the Budget Requirement (BR) return.