Local Authority Debt (Hansard, 9 November 2001)

§ Dr. Whitehead

The 106 English local authorities listed have reported that they had debt-free status as at 30 June 2001:

Barking and Dagenham
Basingstoke and Deane
Bath and North East Somerset
Bedford
Bracknell Forest UA
Breckland
Broadland
Bromley
Bromsgrove
Broxbourne
Chichester
Chiltern
Christchurch
City of London
Congleton
Corby
Cotswold
Crawley
Dacorum
Dartford
Daventry
Dorset
East Cambridgeshire
East Devon
East Dorset
East Hampshire
Eden
Elmbridge
Epsom and Ewell
Forest Heath
Fylde
Hambleton
Harlow
Hart
Havant
Hertsmere
Horsham
Huntingdonshire
Kennet
Lichfield
Malvern Hills
Mid Bedfordshire
Mid Sussex
Mole Valley
North Devon
North Dorset
North Wiltshire
Penwith
Redditch
Reigate and Banstead
Runnymede
Rushmoor
Ryedale
Salisbury
Sevenoaks
South Buckinghamshire

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South Cambridgeshire
South Hampshire
South Northamptonshire
South Oxfordshire
South Ribble
South Shropshire
South Somerset
South Staffordshire
Spelthorne
St. Edmundsbury
Staffordshire Moorlands
Stevenage
Stratford-on-Avon
Suffolk Coastal
Surrey Heath
Swale
Tandridge
Tewkesbury
Three Rivers
Tonbridge and Mailing
Tunbridge Wells
Tynedale
Uttlesford
Vale of White Horse
Watford
Waverley
Welwyn Hatfield
West Berkshire UA
West Wiltshire
Windsor and Maidenhead UA
Worthing
Wychavon
Wyre
Wyre Forest
Cambridgeshire Police Authority

Authority	Date of transfer	Number of dwellings
Cotswold district council	28 February 1997	4,282
South Staffordshire district council	7 March 1997	5,273
Lichfield district council	19 March 1997	4,921
South Oxfordshire district council	7 July 1997	5,018
Eden district council	22 September 1997	1,510
London borough of Lambeth (Moorlands)	5 January 1998	515
London borough of Bexley (partial)	9 February 1998	4,118
London borough of Bexley (partial)	9 February 1998	4,097
Congleton borough council	2 March 1998	4,061
Oldham borough council (Limehurst)	9 March 1998	642
Liverpool city council (Windermere)	19 March 1998	493
London borough of Merton (Pollards Hill)	23 March 1998	1,018
London borough of Tower Hamlets (Poplar)	23 March 1998	1,852
Kerrier district council	23 March 1998	3,732
London borough of Hackney (Kingsmead)	30 March 1998	951
London borough of Brent (Fortunegate/Church End)	30 March 1998	1,481
Basildon district council (Vange)	30 March 1998	708
West Somerset district council	30 March 1998	1,869
Stoke-on-Trent city council (Bentilee)	31 March 1998	917
Tewkesbury borough council	27 April 1998	3,066
Rother district council	1 May 1998	3,058
London borough of Lambeth (Lansdowne Green)	20 July 1998	681
London borough of Tower Hamlets (Poplar II)	7 December 1998	2,431
Wirral metropolitan borough council (Leasowe)	25 January 1999	1,082
Tameside metropolitan borough council (West Ashton)	1 February 1999	901
West Devon borough council	22 February 1999	1,446
South Somerset district council	1 March 1999	8,883

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Dorset Police Authority
Kent Police Authority
Merseyside Police Authority
Suffolk Police Authority
Sussex Police Authority
Wiltshire Police Authority
Dartmoor National Park Authority
Exmoor National Park Authority
Lake District National Park
North York Moors National Park Authority
Northumberland National Park Authority
Peak National Park
The Broads Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
North London Waste Authority

Note:

An authority is debt-free if (a) at 30 June 2001, the authority's credit ceiling was nil or a negative amount and (b) at 1 July 2001, the authority had no money outstanding by way of external borrowing other than short-term borrowing or hard to redeem debt, as defined in Regulation 154 of the Local Authorities (Capital Finance) Regulations 1997.

Source:

Capital Payments and Receipts (CPR1) 2001–02.

I am placing in the Library of the House the relevant figures on levels of debt for each local authority in England reported as at 31 March 1997 and 31 March 2001.