HC Deb 30 January 1996 vol 270 cc652-3W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was total Government spending in(a) Pendle, (b) Bath and (c) Bournemouth. [12618]

Sir Paul Beresford

Central Government support comprises support for capital spending as well as revenue spending. The latest available figures for 1995–96 are as follows. Differences between districts' overall level of revenue support depend on a large number of factors including the size of the tax base from which council tax can be raised, as well as the Government's assessment of relative expenditure needs.

£ thousand
Pendle Bath Bournemouth
Revenue support grant 3,462 3,687 8,562
Redistributed non-domestic rates 2,872 2,780 5,347
Specific and special grants inside AEF, excluding SSA reduction grant 181 253 683
SSA reduction grant 540 0 646
Specific and special grants outside AEF 10,242 10,939 34,113
Total revenue support 17,297 17,659 49,351
Credit approvals 1,183 484 1,956
Capital grants 1,277 1,517 480
Total central Government support 19,757 19,660 51,787

Source:

Revenue support items: Budget Estimates from RA96 return.

Credit approvals and capital grants: most recent capital payments return. The figures for credit approvals relate to basic and supplementary credit approvals issued less receipts of specified capital grant.

Mr. Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list for each local authority in(a) Lancashire and (b) the rest of England the capital receipts held by them resulting from the sale of land, property and other assets. [12617]

Sir Paul Beresford

A list of the amounts of accumulated usable receipts from all assets at 31 March 1995 for each English local authority was placed in the Library of the House in response to the question of 22 January 1996 from the hon. Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Smith),Official Report, column 85. The figures for authorities in Lancashire are:

Amounts held at 31 March 1995 (£ million)
Usable receipts
Lancashire county council 0.751
Blackburn 0
Blackpool 7.480
Burnley 2.066
Chorley 1.047
Fylde 0.451
Hyndburn 0.315
Lancaster 0
Pendle 1.385
Preston 1.839
Ribble Valley 0.796
Rossendale 0.056
South Ribble 5.738
West Lancashire 1.131
Wyre 0.159

Local authorities are required to set aside 75 per cent. of their capital receipts from the sale of council housing and 50 per cent. of most other receipts, to repay debt. These amounts form part of the provision for credit liabilities, which also includes amounts set aside from revenue. Separate figures for set-aside capital receipts are not available.