Local Authority Standards (Hansard, 19 October 1994)

§ Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list each local authority in England and indicate whether the authority(a) has had no more than three reports of maladministration between 1990 and 1993, (b) has received one or more charter marks for council services in 1992 or 1993, (c) has received no directions for anti-competitive behaviour or for the financial failure of direct services organisations before January, (d) has been judged well ahead of the field in its region under the housing investment programme between 1992 and 1995, (e) has been the winner of a city challenge competition, (f) has local or unitary development plans for the whole council area and the council has decided half or more of its planning decisions within eight weeks, (g) budgeted to spend below its standard spending assessment between 1991 and 1994, (h) reduced its indebtedness between 1991 and 1993 and (i) collected at least half of

Nitrogen Dioxide
Place	Date	Predicted	Actual
London	12–13 December 1991	Very Poor	Very Poor
Manchester	23 December 1991	Poor	Very Poor

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its national non-domestic rates by 30 September in 1991 and 1993.