HC Deb 04 November 1993 vol 231 cc376-7W
Mr. Tipping

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will detail the standard spending assessment and planned budget for each fire and rescue service during the current financial year.

Mr. Howard

Standard spending assessments relate to fire and civil defence expenditure; and the table provides the information requested on that basis.

(£ million)
1993–94 Fire and Civil Defence SSA 1993–94 Fire and Civil Defence budgeted spending
County Fire Authority
Avon 20.473 21.829
Bedfordshire 11.073 11.780
Berkshire 16.601 15.798
Buckinghamshire 12.360 12.318
Cambridgeshire 12.039 13.795
Cheshire 20.103 21.002
Cleveland 19.464 20.128
Cornwall 7.181 10.146
Cumbria 8.753 11.813
Derbyshire 17.067 18.272
Devon 19.557 22.240
Dorset 12.065 13.748
Durham 12.973 13.914
East Sussex 14.891 16.600
Essex 31.445 34.667
Gloucestershire 9.605 10.285
Hampshire 31.585 27.823
Hereford and Worcester 12.116 12.025
Hertfordshire 20.328 19.547
Kent 2.229 3.396
Humberside 21.322 22.168
Isle of Wight 30.998 35.138

1993–94 Fire and Civil Defence SSA 1993–94 Fire and Civil Defence budgeted spending
Lancashire 32.276 33.320
Leicestershire 16.924 14.878
Lincolnshire 9.583 11.641
Norfolk 13.010 14.999
Northamptonshire 11.260 11.460
Northumberland 5.823 8.433
North Yorkshire 12.001 14.718
Nottinghamshire 21.087 20.784
Oxfordshire 11.284 11.326
Shropshire 7.839 8.040
Somerset 7.693 9.349
Staffordshire 19.345 18.577
Suffolk 11.023 12.770
Surrey 22.133 26.288
Warwickshire 8.993 11.574
West Sussex 14.836 16.122
Wiltshire 10.054 10.267
Isles of Scilly 0.053 0.088
Fire and Civil Defence Authority
London 247.910 247.749
Greater Manchester 72.754 70.516
Merseyside 48.327 47.429
South Yorkshire 29.683 30.104
Tyne and Wear 35.357 33.803
West Midlands 69.070 66.728
West Yorkshire 50.752 52.392

Note: The SSAs shown for county fire authorities take no account of capital financing costs.