HC Deb 14 October 2002 vol 390 cc462-5W
Clive Efford

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what has been the average percentage increases in social services budgets in London boroughs; and what were the increases in(a) social services SSAs and (b) revenue support grants (i) for each local authority and (ii) for London as a whole in each of the last five years. [69151]

Jacqui Smith

I have been asked to reply.

The tables below provide the amounts and percentage increases in social services budgets, personal social services standard spending assessment and revenue grants paid by this Department for each local authority in inner and outer London and for London as a whole, for each of the last five years. The percentage increases do not reflect the changes in functions, and are not therefore, on a like for like basis. Budget figures are not available yet for 2002–03.

Personal Social Services Budgets 1997–98 to 2001–02
1997–98 £ million Increase Per cent. 1998–99 £ million Increase Per cent. 1999–2000 £ million Increase Per cent. 2000–01 £ million Increase Per cent. 2001–02 £ million Increase Per cent.
Tower Hamlets 67.838 12.5 71.932 6.0 75.881 5.5 78.987 4.1 85.668 8.5
Wandsworth 77.126 -1.1 81.078 5.1 82.280 1.5 85.833 4.3 88.099 2.6
Westminster 82.901 15.3 76.472 -7.8 95.784 25.3 100.342 4.8 100.758 0.4
Outer London
Barking and Dagenham 35.750 6.5 37.582 5.1 50.647 34.8 57.904 14.3 61.147 5.6
Barnet 65.342 14.5 69.971 7.1 75.272 7.6 77.849 3.4 90.492 16.2
Bexley 35.114 11.1 38.864 10.7 43.669 12.4 44.755 2.5 47.420 6.0
Brent 59.597 5.0 60.814 2.0 71.898 18.2 70.758 -1.6 75.660 6.9
Bromley 48.271 7.5 52.372 8.5 61.556 17.5 63.371 2.9 68.108 7.5
Croydon 63.051 8.2 65.925 4.6 77.256 17.2 78.238 1.3 83.164 6.3
Ealing 58.068 6.6 62.179 7.1 66.288 6.6 71.049 7.7 85.027 19.7
Enfield 53,479 3.2 55.528 3.8 56.209 1.2 62.337 10.9 75.504 21.1
Haringey 60.880 4.0 62.521 2.7 64.379 3.0 63.649 -1.1 110.873 74.2
Harrow 43.961 11.9 46.336 5.5 48.776 5.2 49.744 2.0 56.187 13.0
Havering 38.568 3.9 40.021 3.8 42.342 5.8 42.972 1.5 42.156 -1.9
Hillingdon 44.117 4.8 50.319 14.1 62.789 24.8 66.664 6.2 74.366 11.6
Hounslow 45.740 6.1 49.002 7.1 51.548 5.2 56.958 10.5 60.627 6.4
Kingston upon Thames 26.868 5.9 28.428 5.8 31.323 10.2 31.958 2.0 35.136 9.9
Merton 33.803 5.9 33.347 -1.3 37.434 12.3 43.155 15.3 47.931 11.1
Newham 75.075 16.1 80.408 7.1 91.025 13.2 94.894 4.3 102.872 8.4
Redbridge 41.471 8.1 42.535 2.6 49.308 15.9 61.607 24.9 63.597 8.4
Richmond upon Thames 31.747 10.0 32.837 3.4 33.794 2.9 35.418 4.8 35.715 0.8
Sutton 30.791 4.8 32.682 6.1 35.794 9.5 38.022 6.2 42.127 10.8
Waltham Forest 56.877 7.2 58.640 3.1 60.497 3.2 60.367 -0.2 63.068 4.5
Total London Boroughs 1,839.089 8.2 1,913.836 4.1 2,119.321 10.7 2,243.418 5.9 2,469.027 10.1

Personal Social Services Standard Spending Assessment—1998–99 to 2002–03
1998–99 £ million Increase Per cent. 1999–2000 £ million Increase Per cent. 2000–01 £ million Increase Per cent. 2001–02 £ million Increase Per cent. 2002–03 £ million Increase Per cent.
Inner London
City of London 1,563 0.1 2.141 36.9 2.234 4.4 2.349 5.1 2.719 15.8
Camden 61.751 0.3 62.276 0.9 65.504 5.2 68.067 3.9 70.583 3.7
Greenwich 54.460 2.1 59.829 9.9 62.953 5.2 63.824 1.4 65.076 2.0
Hackney 74.325 -1.8 70.924 -4.6 75.190 6.0 77.171 2.6 79.011 2.4
Hammersmith and Fulham 47.201 0.5 47.450 0.5 49.832 5.0 51.577 3.5 53.158 3.1
Islington 62.989 2.2 63.842 1.4 67.969 6.5 67.954 0.0 69.045 1.6
Kensington and Chelsea 41.484 2.8 42.924 3.5 46.549 8.4 49.290 5.9 52.229 6.0
Lambeth 88.775 2.3 85.677 -3.5 90.876 6.1 92.374 1.6 94.026 1.8
Lewisham 71.877 3.6 72.399 0.7 75.338 4.1 75.867 0.7 76.783 1.2
Southwark 74.806 1.6 81.220 8.6 85.596 5.4 87.510 2.2 89.270 2.0
Tower Hamlets 63.511 7.6 70.136 10.4 73.557 4.9 75.331 2.4 77.100 2.3
Wandsworth 68.153 1.7 70.929 4.1 73.659 3.8 74.746 1.5 75.614 1.2
Westminster 58.871 1.8 63.180 7.3 67.906 7.5 71.692 5.6 75.500 5.3
Outer London
Barking and Dagenham 33.451 8.3 40.115 19.9 42.391 5.7 44.148 4.1 44.826 1.5
Barnet 56.293 9.0 57.160 1.5 60.378 5.6 63.692 5.5 65.811 3.3
Bexley 30.511 11.3 34.958 14.6 36.583 4.6 38.251 4.6 39.540 3.4
Brent 62.388 8.4 57.980 -7.1 60.324 4.0 61.747 2.4 63.013 2.0
Bromley 42.433 6.8 45.988 8.4 47.478 3.2 49.695 4.7 51.120 2.9
Croydon 55.453 6.7 57.303 3.3 59.888 4.5 61.631 2.9 63.255 2.6
Ealing 62.257 8.7 62.472 0.3 65.415 4.7 68.086 4.1 69.048 1.4
Enfield 47.445 9.6 51.591 8.7 54.113 4.9 56.839 5.0 58.442 2.8
Haringey 60.534 4.0 56.376 -6.9 59.406 5.4 61.138 2.9 61.992 1.4
Harrow 34.686 12.8 35.983 3.7 37.664 4.7 39.300 4.3 40.628 3.4
Havering 31.752 10.5 34.526 8.7 36.336 5.2 38.514 6.0 39.890 3.6
Hillingdon 37.911 7.3 40.156 5.9 42.237 5.2 44.054 4.3 45.505 3.3
Hounslow 40.673 4.3 42.113 3.5 44.080 4.7 45.783 3.9 46.255 1.0
Kingston upon Thames 20.269 5.9 21.483 6.0 22.456 4.5 23.387 4.1 24.163 3.3
Merton 30.422 7.4 33.010 8.5 34.067 3.2 35.052 2.9 35.888 2.4
Newham 65.129 7.2 62.896 -3.4 66.482 5.7 68.797 3.5 70.048 1.8
Redbridge 39.465 12.4 41.741 5.8 43.796 4.9 45.514 3.9 46.622 2.4
Richmond upon Thames 26.442 4.7 27.734 4.9 29.171 5.2 30.779 5.5 31.648 2.8
Sutton 27.193 7.0 29.319 7.8 30.153 2.8 31.174 3.4 32.095 3.0
Waltham Forest 51.887 7.2 54.001 4.1 56.118 3.9 56.900 1.4 57.612 1.3
Total London Boroughs 1,626.361 5.0 1,679.830 3.3 1,765.698 5.1 1,822.230 3.2 1,867.515 2.5

PSS Revenue Grants
1998–99 £ million Increase Per cent. 1999–2000 £ million Increase Per cent. 2000–01 £ million Increase Per cent. 2001–02 £ million Increase Per cent. 2002–03 £ million Increase Per cent.
Inner London
City of London 0.195 36.7 0.182 -6.4 1.601 778.3 1.558 -2.7 0.462 -70.4
Camden 3.621 -5.4 4.798 32.5 5.438 13.4 8.490 56.1 13.228 55.8
Greenwich 3.046 -0.1 3.821 25.4 4.375 14.5 7.345 67.9 11.817 60.9
Hackney 3.776 -2.2 5.013 32.8 6.023 20.1 9.673 60.6 14.210 46.9
Hammersmith and Fulham 3.170 -1.3 4.005 26.3 4.381 9.4 6.962 58.9 11.478 64.9

PSS Revenue Grants
1998–99 £ million Increase Per cent. 1999–2000 £ million Increase Per cent. 2000–01 £ million Increase Per cent. 2001–02 £ million Increase Per cent. 2002–03 £ million Increase Per cent.
Islington 3.348 1.8 4.469 33.5 5.135 14.9 8.480 65.1 14.127 66.6
Kensington and Chelsea 2.882 -6.9 4.235 47.0 4.146 -2.1 6.130 47.9 9.968 62.6
Lambeth 4.481 -2.0 6.273 40.0 7.465 19.0 12.357 65.5 21.702 75.6
Lewisham 3.849 6.3 5.105 32.6 5.969 16.9 9.558 60.1 14.090 47.4
Southwark 4.186 2.3 5.744 37.2 6.701 16.7 11.103 65.7 17.972 61.9
Tower Hamlets 3.623 10.0 4.897 35.2 5.447 11.2 8.918 63.7 13.216 48.2
Wandsworth 3.972 -1.8 4.902 23.4 5.600 14.2 8.735 56.0 15.989 83.1
Westminster 3.711 -5.2 4.674 26.0 5.387 15.2 8.360 53.3 14.072 70.4
Outer London
Barking and Dagenham 2.028 7.2 2.316 14.2 2.598 12.2 4.668 79.7 6.953 49.0
Barnet 3.298 9.3 3.774 14.4 4.228 12.0 6.871 62.5 12.549 82.6
Bexley 1.932 9.3 2.196 13.7 2.431 10.7 4.012 65.0 8.317 107.3
Brent 2.919 10.1 4.034 38.2 4.804 19.1 7.642 59.1 11.498 50.5
Bromley 2.459 5.8 2.780 13.1 3.102 11.6 5.578 79.8 11.508 106.3
Croydon 2.971 10.3 3.829 28.9 4.371 14.2 7.199 64.7 15.217 111.4
Ealing 3.233 7.1 4.167 28.9 4.837 16.1 7.898 63.3 13.290 68.3
Enfield 2.684 11.0 3.201 19.3 3.644 13.8 6.404 75.7 12.208 90.6
Haringey 2.889 3.1 4.125 42.8 4.849 17.5 8.078 66.6 14.440 78.8
Harrow 2.090 17.5 2.330 11.5 2.616 12.3 4.161 59.1 6.542 57.2
Havering 1.945 13.2 2.157 10.9 2.396 11.1 4.143 72.9 7.152 72.6
Hillingdon 2.319 6.7 2.702 16.6 3.068 13.5 5.294 72.6 8.086 52.7
Hounslow 2.238 3.7 2.848 27.3 3.238 13.7 5.010 54.7 8.535 70.4
Kingston upon Thames 1.351 12.0 1.633 20.9 1.760 7.8 2.841 61.4 5.630 98.2
Merton 1.996 6.0 2.360 18.2 2.737 16.0 4.209 53.8 6.920 64.4
Newham 3.498 13.3 4.792 37.0 5.599 16.8 9.032 61.3 13.716 51.9
Redbridge 2.286 16.2 2.554 11.7 2.861 12.0 4.716 64.8 7.869 66.9
Richmond upon Thames 1.694 2.5 1.912 12.9 2.082 8.9 3.391 62.9 5.680 67.5
Sutton 1.591 4.0 1.815 14.1 2.055 13.2 3.333 62.2 6.939 108.2
Waltham Forest 2.906 6.1 3.510 20.8 3.974 13.2 6.786 70.8 11.137 64.1
Total London Boroughs 92.185 4.2 117.152 27.1 134.919 15.2 218.836 62.2 366.514 67.5