§ Sir Peter HordernTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the shire counties' budgets for 1994–95, ranking them in order from the largest increase from the previous year to the lowest. [38580]
§ Mr. CurryThe requested information is as follows:
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Budgeted net revenue expenditure £ thousand 1993–94 1994–95 Percentage increase Essex 916,746 982,211 7.14 Surrey 535,000 572,750 7.06 Hampshire 875,167 935,579 6.90 Durham 365,992 389,621 6.46 Cleveland 403,791 426,835 5.71 Devon 594,059 627,715 5.67 West Sussex 403,140 425,376 5.52 Hertfordshire 597,422 630,259 5.50 Hereford and Worcester 372,435 392,602 5.41 Derbyshire 557,568 587,507 5.37 Humberside 575,933 606,678 5.34 Norfolk 437,460 460,128 5.18 Cambridgeshire 389,192 408,758 5.03 Dorset 353,565 371,071 4.95 Avon 568,892 596,863 4.92 East Sussex 416,519 436,567 4.81 Isle of Wight 78,453 82,192 4.77 Cornwall 288,045 301,500 4.67 Cheshire 587,400 614,817 4.67 Kent 964,833 1,009,770 4.66 Berkshire 462,846 484,287 4.63 North Yorkshire 398,478 416,497 4.52 Somerset 271,355 283,277 4.39 Gloucestershire 306,610 319,546 4.22 Lincolnshire 363,829 378,808 4.12
Budgeted net revenue expenditure £ thousand 1993–94 1994–95 Percentage increase Wiltshire 324,509 337,855 4.11 Oxfordshire 326,569 339,789 4.05 Lancashire 922,071 958,568 3.96 Shropshire 243,991 252,945 3.67 Staffordshire 598,753 620,712 3.67 Bedfordshire 352,922 364,872 3.39 Northamptonshire 365,499 377,582 3.31 Warwickshire 288,276 297,600 3.23 Cumbria 310,634 319,506 2.86 Buckinghamshire 417,377 428,000 2.55 Leicestershire 554,101 567,888 2.49 Nottinghamshire 675,158 690,281 2.24 Suffolk 371,517 378,750 1.95 Northumberland 189,168 191,127 1.04 Total 18,025,275 18,866,689 4.67 Source:
Revenue account returns (RA94 and RA95).
Note:
Net revenue expenditure is financed through revenue support grant, redistributed non-domestic rates, council taxes and withdrawals from financial reserves. Much of the increase in net revenue expenditure in shire counties between 1993–94 and 1994–95 can be attributed to the increased responsibilities associated with care in community.
§ Sir Peter HordernTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the amount of revenue support grant paid to each shire county in 1994–95, indicating the percentage movement from the previous year. [38577]
§ Mr. CurryThe requested information is as follows:
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Revenue support grant £ thousand 1993–94 1994–95 Percentage Movement Avon 210,349 231,066 9.85 Bedfordshire 164,372 177,975 8.28 Berkshire 184,157 201,220 9.27 Buckinghamshire 174,081 192,144 10.38 Cambridgeshire 150,499 170,425 13.24 Cheshire 222,981 250,838 12.49 Cleveland 211,432 224,906 6.37 Cornwall 111,153 126,130 13.47 Cumbria 127,558 140,367 10.04 Derbyshire 211,990 241,693 14.01 Devon 223,173 252,314 13.06 Dorset 114,032 129,889 13.91 Durham 164,275 190,899 16.21 East Sussex 152,910 171,660 12.26 Essex 386,223 442,710 14.63 Gloucestershire 111,708 122,009 9.22 Hampshire 336,625 379,960 12.87 Hereford and Worcester 130,194 147,936 13.63 Hertfordshire 229,600 264,788 15.33 Humberside 265,891 284,832 7.12 Isle of Wight 31,407 36,160 15.13 Kent 412,997 464,268 12.41 Lancashire 395,532 434,853 9.94 Leicestershire 249,061 263,909 5.96 Lincolnshire 151,147 166,940 10.45 Norfolk 161,305 183,904 14.01 Northamptonshire 160,797 168,255 4.64 Northumberland 80,335 93,093 15.88 North Yorkshire 135,319 154,182 13.94 Nottinghamshire 275,171 295,627 7.43
Revenue support grant £ thousand 1993–94 1994–95 Percentage Movement Oxfordshire 106,485 124,175 16.61 Shropshire 97,225 107,978 11.06 Somerset 97,912 110,209 12.56 Staffordshire 245,106 273.345 11.52 Suffolk 140,224 154,330 10.06 Surrey 147,217 178,522 21.26 Warwickshire 94,198 106,115 12.65 West Sussex 126,131 153,329 21.56 Wiltshire 117,024 129,615 10.76 Total 7,107,796 7,942,570 11.74 Source:
Revenue account (RA95) return.
Note:
Revenue support grant is calculated as the difference between an authority's standard spending assessment and the sum of the income from its council tax, assuming that its tax was set at the council tax for standard spending, and its share of the distributable amount of non-domestic rates. At national level, the change in the amount of RSG reflects changes in each of these elements. The differential increases in RSG between authorities will reflect changes in assessed need function and in the size of their own taxbase. Between 1993–94 and 1994–95 in particular, total RSG increased through the fall in the yield of the NDR, and the increase in SSA necessitated by increased responsibilities for local authorities associated with care in the community. In shire counties, the latter amounted to some £350 million.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what action he is taking to ensure that counties that become unitary local authorities in 1997 do not lose the financial contributions they currently receive in respect of their sites and ancient monuments record; and if he will make a statement. [40008]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordRevenue support grant allocations are made using a formula to assess relative expenditure need for each authority to provide its services to a standard level. It will therefore continue to be applied to authorities affected by an order for structural change taking account of their provision of both "county" and "district" functions.