HC Deb 26 March 2001 vol 365 c423W
Mr. Martlew

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will make a statement on light dues. [155949]

Mr. Hill

I am pleased to announce that the light dues rates will remain the same for 2001–02.

Following four years of stability, the current rates were set in 1997 when charges were reduced by an average of 4.6 per cent. The General Lighthouse Authorities deserve

£ million
Programme 1996–971 2000–012
Education Standards Fund 46 78
New Deal for Schools capital3 450
Health programmes 24 21
New Deal for Communities3 120
Air Quality and Smoke Control Supplementary Credit Approvals 3 3
Estates renewal 30 81
Estate Action 252 68
Land reclamation 51 6
Crime Fighting Fund and schools intervention3 48
PFI credits for joined up schemes3 30
Invest to Save Budget3 39
Capital Modernisation Fund3 340
European Structural Funds4 116 212
Single Regeneration Budget (Challenge Fund)/SRB5 265 814
City Challenge6 224
DCMS/Wolfson Public Libraries Challenge Fund3 2
Combined Conservation Area Partnership Schemes and Heritage Economic Regeneration Scheme 12 5
Innovative transport project3 1
Rural Bus Challenge3 20
Total 1,023 2,338
1 Actual outturn
2 Provisional
3 Programmes did not exist in 1996–97
4 Outturn for both years
5 In the SRB, local regeneration partnerships, which normally include local authority partners, were able to bid for resources under individual bidding rounds (1–6)
6 Programme ended in 1998.

In addition £18.5 million has been allocated to fund the development of new and the ex tension of existing neighbourhood warden schemes.