HC Deb 20 June 1994 vol 245 cc40-1W
Sir Teddy Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what has been the total of European regional development fund grants accruing to local authorities in Wales in each of the most recent five years; if he will make a statement clarifying the manner in which such grants are taken into account in assessing the standard spending assessments of local authorities in Wales; and what recent changes there have been in such procedures.

Mr. Gwilym Jones

The total amount of ERDF paid to local authorities in Wales in each of the most recent five years is provided in the following table.

Each local authority's outstanding loan debt is taken into account when it's standard spending assessment is determined.

Since ERDF grants are used to redeem debt, the relevant debt figures for each authority is reduced annually by the amount of ERDF grant it has received up to the end of the last full financial year for which payments information is available. This procedure, which is agreed with the Welsh local authority associations, has not changed in recent years. Further details may be found in the "Local Government Finance Report (Wales) 1994–95" (HC 168).

Authority 1989–90 £ 1990–91 £ 1991–92 £ 1992–93 £ 1993–94 £
Llanelli 465,000 25,000 574,000 1,139,000 1,032,000
Lliw Valley 0 0 185,000 139,000 225,000
Meirionnydd 31,000 780,000 784,000 1,698,000 997,000
Merthyr Tydfil 10,000 13,000 0 0 147,000
Mid Glamorgan 4,956,000 4,291,000 1,997,000 3,694,000 4,448,000
Monmouth 0 0 121,000 73,000 38,000
Montgomeryshire 642,000 24,000 1,270,000 1,074,000 329,000
Neath 74,000 37,000 709,000 0 374,000
Newport 261,000 358,000 741,000 1,960,000 765,000
Ogwr 708,000 83,000 0 96,000 274,000
Port Talbot 81,000 0 0 0 47,000
Powys 1,023,000 249,000 1,824,000 1,815,000 661,000
Preseli Pembroke 58,000 0 1,158,000 556,000 173,000
Radnorshire 31,000 0 316,000 745,000 169,000
Rhondda 415,000 658,000 907,000 270,000 807,000
Rhuddlan 3,000 981,000 1,956,000 1,682,000 1,011,000
Rhymney Valley 288,000 77,000 539,000 185,000 289,000
South Glamorgan 286,000 69,000 2,689,000 5,210,000 1,016,000
South Pembrokeshire 405,000 288,000 43,000 0 131,000
Swansea 0 3,924,000 215,000 1,228,000 1,456,000
Taff Ely 0 19,000 97,000 238,000 277,000
Torfaen 120,000 706,000 383,000 1,219,000 1,015,000
Vale of Glamorgan 0 6,000 517,000 205,000 155,000
West Glamorgan 1,556,000 291,000 5,582,000 2,715,000 2,386,000
Wrexham Maelor 0 240,000 2,259,000 476,000 132,000
Ynys Môn 710,000 436,000 1,404,000 40,000 82,000
Total 18,218,000 20,988,000 50,735,000 36,969,000 33,192,000
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