§ Mr. PoundTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will publish the(a) aggregate amount of civil defence grants to be made for the financial year 2002–03, (b) amount of grant to be paid in to each local authority and (c) criteria used to determine the allocation between authorities; and if he will make a statement. [46856]
§ Mr. LeslieThe aggregate amount is £18,968,850 of which £100,000 will be retained as discretionary grant for special projects and special events deemed of benefit to the wider emergency planning community in England and Wales.
The remaining £18,868,850 will be allocated to individual authorities as set out in the table below.
The following formula has been adopted to determine these allocations. First, each authority receives £53,000. Second, each county council receives £12,000 in respect of each shire district within the authority's boundaries. These flat-rate payments account for some 65 per cent. of the aggregate grant in recognition of the fact that every authority, regardless of size and population, must incur similar unavoidable costs in conducting the basic emergency planning function. The remainder of the total grant (approximately 35 per cent.) is then distributed according to the Bellwin threshold in recognition of the fact that population size provides a rough proxy for the scale of the emergency planning that authorities need to undertake.
A simple application of the formula would result in some authorities facing a significant decrease on the grant they had received during the current financial year, whilst others would receive a significant increase. Mindful of the importance of keeping such year-on-year changes within reasonable bounds, a damping has been added to the formula so that no authority loses more than 10 per cent. or gains more than 20 per cent. compared with the current year.
Before reaching decisions on this allocation method, consultations were held with Local Authority representatives on the basis of a draft formula. As a result of the representations made, that original formula was amended to give greater weight to the flat rate 813W element and lesser weight to the element distributed by reference to the Bellwin threshold. The damping was also changed to reduce the floor level for losses.
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Local Authority Grant allocation for 2002–03 (£) Barking & Dagenham 75,583 Barnet 80,268 Barnsley 75,690 Bath and N.E. Somerset 89,625 Bedfordshire 136,125 Bexley 78,372 Birmingham 186,994 Blackburn with Darwen 70,272 Blackpool 66,276 Blaenau Gwent 62,697 Bolton 82,288 Bournemouth 69,736 Bracknell Forest 63,513 Bradford 125,370 Brent 86,206 Bridgend 67,937 Brighton & Hove 80,786 Bristol 98,100 Bromley 84,594 Buckinghamshire 200,171 Bury 70,809 Caerphilly 72,702 Calderdale 74,188 Cambridgeshire 162,671 Camden 83,789 Cardiff 86,936 Carmarthenshire 73,472 Ceredigion 63,757 Cheshire 189,583 City of London 59,759 Conwy 64,425 Cornwall 188,893 Coventry 77,390 Croydon 90,280 Cumbria 215,730 Darlington 63,513 Denbighshire 71,048 Derby 76,117 Derbyshire 220,073 Devon 216,908 Doncaster 85,130 Dorset 175,500 Dudley 82,522 Durham 213,215 Ealing 89,958 East Riding of Yorkshire 71,880 East Sussex 207,902 Enfield 87,812 Essex 314,726 Flintshire 77,355 Gateshead 78,754 Gloucestershire 189,574 Greater Manchester EP 63,674 Greenwich 86,096 Gwynedd 67,312 Hackney 87,759 Halton 67,751 Hammersmith & Fulham 76,333 Hampshire 298,610 Haringey 85,238 Harrow 65,340 Hartlepool 64,264 Havering 77,299 Herefordshire 69,843 Hertfordshire 310,500 Hillingdon 81,000 Hounslow 80,356 Hull (Kingston upon Hull) 71,879 815W
Local Authority Grant allocation for 2002–03 (£) Isle of Anglesey 60,956 Isle of Wight 71,844 Isles of Scilly 53,322 Islington 83,038 Kensington and Chelsea 74,402 Kent 339,200 Kingston upon Thames 67,268 Kirklees 95,045 Knowsley 73,973 Lambeth 87,403 Lancashire 314,847 Leeds 172,601 Leicester City 88,510 Leicestershire 192,571 Lewisham 83,592 Lincolnshire 212,407 Liverpool 97,262 London FEPA 151,439 Luton 59,508 Manchester 147,281 Medway 81,161 Merseyside 72,946 Merthyr Tydfil 60,612 Merton 71,667 Middlesbrough 70,969 Milton Keynes 81,018 Monmouthshire 61,768 Neath Port Talbot 69,873 Newcastle upon Tyne 102,437 Newham 87,840 Newport 68,230 Norfolk 276,427 North East Lincolnshire 71,238 North Lincolnshire 69,146 North Somerset 70,862 North Tyneside 73,705 North Yorkshire 244,137 Northamptonshire 238,874 Northumberland 187,736 Nottingham City 85,935 Nottinghamshire 210,541 Oldham 78,908 Oxfordshire 202,073 Pembrokeshire 66,349 Peterborough 71,828 Plymouth 81,322 Poole 66,249 Portsmouth 74,081 Powys 85,500 Reading 67,000 Redbridge 82,180 Redcar and Cleveland 69,307 Rhondda Cynon Taff 81,933 Richmond upon Thames 69,038 Rochdale 76,924 Rotherham 81,268 Rutland 56,057 Salford 72,000 Sandwell 88,027 Sefton 83,629 Sheffield 96,000 Shropshire 153,448 Slough Borough 68,180 Solihull 73,330 Somerset 163,973 South Tyneside 71,130 South Yorkshire EP 83,970 Southampton 77,084 Southend 71,580 Southwark 76,957 St Helens 72,947 Staffordshire 226,456 South Gloucestershire 75,797
Local Authority Grant allocation for 2002–03 (£) Stockport 79,606 Stockton-on-Tees 73,491 Stoke-on-Trent 74,027 Suffolk 221,400 Sunderland 100,721 Surrey 297,002 Sutton 72,740 Swansea 78,547 Swindon 70,969 Tameside 76,924 Telford and Wrekin 71,999 Thurrock 68,280 Torbay 67,054 Torfaen 64,490 Tower Hamlets 93,123 Trafford 75,368 Tyne & Wear 34,506 Vale of Glamorgan 71,999 Wakefield 86,281 Walsall 83,253 Waltham Forest 83,146 Wandsworth 78,769 Warrington 72,418 Warwickshire 181,336 West Berkshire 67,429 West Midlands EP 60,000 West Sussex 225,000 West Yorkshire EP 61,207 Westminster 86,418 Wigan 84,111 Wiltshire 194,400 Windsor & Maidenhead 66,410 Wirral 89,475 Wokingham 66,142 Wolverhampton 81,644 Worcestershire 186,449 Wrexham 72,540 York, City of 71,834