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Urban Programme (Docklands)

Volume 33: debated on Wednesday 1 December 1982

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asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will tabulate in the Official Report the urban programme expenditure in the London docklands for each year since 1979–80, showing for each London borough the amounts allocated to statutory and voluntary bodies, respectively, together with borough and categorised totals for each year.

The amounts allocated under the Docklands urban programme for the years 1979–80 to 1981–82 are set out in the following table.Following the winding up of the Docklands joint committee in October 1981, expenditure arising from existing commitments under the urban programme continues to be provided for via the authorities concerned. Such expenditure is estimated at £16·7 million for 1982·83 of which some £890,000 relates to voluntary schemes. No strictly comparable figures are available for expenditure by the London Docklands Development Corporation in the

London docklands urban programme expenditure allocations 1979–82
1979–80 £0001980–81 £0001981–82 £000
AuthorityStatutory schemesVoluntary schemesStatutory schemesVoluntary schemesStatutory schemesVoluntary schemes
LB Tower Hamlets1,331915,7441484,566322
LB Newham2,0954222,4654842,213313
LB Greenwich3,364564,5391236,23576
LB Lewisham8581,1341,3995831,278526
LB Southwark5,1141986,5613496,023308
GLC2,444Nil2,321794,180227
ILEA4754377449522187
Health Authority320Nil794Nil8366
Totals16,0011,94424,5971,81525,8531,965
17,94526,41227,818
All figures at outturn prices.