§ Mr. TippingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will reconcile the figures for the 443W reductions in the provision for local authority capital approvals and capital grants by service in 1997–98 that were made to provide for the introduction of capital challenge with the estimated supplementary credit approvals to be allocated to each service under the capital challenge pilot scheme. [11650]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThe information available is in a different form from that requested.
The pool of resources for the capital challenge pilot scheme was created by transferring provision from Government Departments' budgets for support for local authority capital expenditure. Table 1 shows departmental contributions in each of the three financial years of the pilot scheme.
Table 1 £ million Department 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 2.6 4.4 3.5 Department of Transport 44.2 74.8 59.8 Department of the Environment 66.3 108.9 87.1 Home Office 3.0 4.9 3.9 Lord Chancellor's Department 1.2 2.0 1.6 Department for Education and Employment 25.4 43.5 34.8 Department of Health 7.2 11.6 9.3 Totals 150.0 250.0 200.0 Columns may not sum due to rounding. Table 2 shows the estimated uptake of supplementary credit approvals by service over the three years of the pilot scheme.
Table 2 £ million Service Credit approvals sought by successful bids Education 104.9 Housing 121.5 Personal social services 15.4 Transport 203.9 Magistrates' courts committees 7.3 Fire and civil defence 18.7 Probation committees 2.9 Coast protection/flood defence 1.3 Sport and recreation 15.0 Economic development 60.3 Waste collection 16.8 Parks and open spaces 10.0 Arts and libraries 11.6 Other 22.2 Total 611.8 A total of £600 million is available under the capital challenge pilot scheme. Ministers have approved a slight surplus of projects since it is likely that some will not proceed according to plan.
The services shown cannot be reconciled directly with the departmental contributions shown in table 1 since some services, for example economic development, will include the policy interests of more than one Department. The precise profiling of individual projects has not yet been agreed with authorities, and it is not therefore possible to show estimated expenditure for each service for individual financial years.