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Mr. Fatchett
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide the total revenue cost for 1983–84 in each of the metropolitan county councils for (a) planning, (b) highways and (c) central administration and express those revenue costs as a percentage of the overall revenue budget for each metropolitan county council.
| Gross revenue rate fund expenditure in cash and as a percentage of aggregate gross revenue rate fund expenditure for 1983–84 | ||||||||
| Town and Country Planning | Highways | General Administration* | Aggregate gross rate fund revenue expenditure | |||||
| £000 | per cent. | £000 | per cent. | £000 | per cent. | £000 | per cent. | |
| Greater Manchester | 6,271 | 1·7 | 36,874 | 9·8 | 2,864 | 0·8 | 375,313 | 100·0 |
| Merseyside | 4,765 | 1·7 | 26,909 | 9·4 | 1,566 | 0·5 | 287,056 | 100·0 |
| South Yorkshire | 4,608 | 1·9 | 38,129 | 15·6 | 2,763 | 1·1 | 243,921 | 100·0 |
| Tyne and Wear | 5,428 | 2·8 | 24,358 | 12·6 | 2,360 | 1·2 | 193,230 | 100·0 |
| West Midlands | 13,671 | 3·8 | 52,518 | 14·6 | 2,019 | 0·6 | 359,829 | 100·0 |
| West Yorkshire | 4,317 | 1·5 | 43,281 | 14·6 | 2,776 | 0·9 | 295,704 | 100·0 |
| * Residual expenditure after recharges to other services. | ||||||||