§ Mr. Allasonto ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has to require all local authorities to highlight or otherwise identify non-statutory expenditure when their budgets are published.
§ Mr. Robert B. JonesNone. It is for individual local authorities to decide what budgetary information to publish about their discretionary expenditure under section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972.
§ Mr. BarnesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the standard spending assessments of each district council in England and Wales as a sum per head of population numbered in descending order.
§ Mr. Robert B. JonesThe requested information for English non-metropolitan districts has been placed in the Library. The standard spending assessments for authorities in Wales are the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Wales.
§ Mr. CongdonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list(a) the outstanding non-housing capital debt and (b) outstanding housing capital debt for each (a) shire county, (b) metropolitan borough and (c) London borough.
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§ Mr. Robert B. JonesThe available information on total longer-term debt is as follows. It is not possible to separate housing and non-housing debt.
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Long-term debt in shire counties, metropolitan districts and London boroughs as at 31 March 1994 Authority Total long-term borrowing at 31March 1994 £000's Shire counties Avon 114,600 Bedfordshire 143,485 Berkshire 144,742 Buckinghamshire 148,150 Cambridgeshire 48,996 Cheshire 124,415 Cleveland 206,651 Cornwall 120,442 Cumbria 129,007 Derbyshire 239,643 Devon 183,017 Dorset 0 Durham 75,513 East Sussex 133,419 Essex 195,049 Gloucestershire 135,935 Hampshire 135,587 Hereford and Worcester 82,474 Hertfordshire 82,585 Humberside 180,347 Isle of Wight 39,689 Kent 394,074 Lancashire 370,188 Leicestershire 192,529 Lincolnshire 7,000 Norfolk 76,553 Northamptonshire 144,138 Northumberland 54,168 North Yorkshire 127,230 Nottinghamshire 163,241 Oxfordshire 73,454 Shropshire 113,325 Somerset 28,444 Staffordshire 245.818 Suffolk 0 Surrey 64,261 Warwickshire 115,454 West Sussex 0 Wiltshire 38,821 Isles of Scilly 2,654 Metropolitan districts Barnsley 174,356 Birmingham 1,178,683 Bolton 144,575 Bradford 402,724 Bury 59,095 Calderdale 120,925 Coventry 381,318 Doncaster 171,571 Dudley 259,391 Gateshead 248,009 Kirklees 233,504 Knowsley 167,678 Leeds 648,201 Liverpool 756,618 Manchester 1,227,649 Newcastle upon Tyne 425,449 North Tyneside 163.949 Oldham 241,554 Rochdale 201,452 Rotherham 227,188 Salford 376,104
Long-term debt in shire counties, metropolitan districts and London boroughs as at 31 March 1994 Authority Total long-term borrowing at 31 March 1994 £000's Sandwell 300,577 Sefton 147,769 Sheffield 749,612 Solihull 65,975 South Tyneside 385,728 St Helens 199,788 Stockport 102,675 Sunderland 258,385 Tameside 182,404 Trafford 82,409 Wakefield 324,042 Walsall 257,039 Wigan 236,142 Wirral 210,709 Wolverhampton 320,468 Inner London boroughs (including City) City of London 0 Camden 603,513 Greenwich 457,643 Hackney 707,097 Hammersmith and Fulham 311,559 Islington 889,837 Kensington and Chelsea 214,461 Lambeth 802,670 Lewisham 494,997 Southwark 855,585 Tower Hamlets 650,464 Wandsworth 220,296 Westminster 301,597 Outer London boroughs Barking and Dagenham 0 Barnet 122,400 Bexley 85,935 Brent 498,585 Bromley 8 Croydon 131,254 Ealing 273,314 Enfield 125,747 Haringey 559,779 Harrow 185,864 Havering 51,590 Hillingdon 142,372 Hounslow 215,685 Kingston upon Thames 88,630 Merton 225,095 Newham 514,688 Redbridge 65,881 Richmond upon Thames 85,465 Sutton 70,143 Waltham Forest 207,098