asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will give details of consents sought by residuary bodies for disposal of land or buildings for less than the best price offered;(2) if he will give details of all applications for the acquisition of land made to his Department by residuary bodies since their establishment.
I shall answer these questions shortly.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give details of all applications to borrow money made to his Department by residuary bodies, and for what purposes.
The Department has received various inquiries from residuary bodies about the circumstances in which borrowing approval would be available. The following formal applications were made in 1986–87.
| Body | Purpose | Amount approved |
| London | — | |
| Greater Manchester | Inherited capital liabilites for Central Station | £3,000,000 |
| Other inherited capital liabilities | £1,500,000 | |
| Merseyside | Staff compensation | No limit specified (approval has not been exercised) |
| Recreating County Council cash book balances | No limit specified (up to £7,000,000 believed to have been borrowed) | |
| Refinancing County Council car loans | £300,000 | |
| Other capital liabilities | Not approved | |
| South Yorkshire | Staff compensation | £2,475,812 |
| Tyne and Wear | Various inhertied capital liabilities | £2,550,000 |
| West Midlands | — | |
| West Yorkshire | Staff compensation | No limit specified (approval has not been exercised) |
| Various capital liabilities | Not approved |
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will identify the county halls currently awaiting disposal by residuary bodies following the abolition of the Greater London council and the metropolitan county councils.
Residuary bodies are marketing their respective interests in the county halls for the former Greater London council, West Yorkshire county council, Greater Manchester county council, Merseyside county council, Tyne and Wear county council and West Midlands county council.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give details of additions and removals of residuary body members since their establishment after abolition of the Greater London council and metropolitan county councils.
Mr. Philip Carter was appointed to the Merseyside residuary body on 21 December 1986. There have been no other changes in the membership of the residuary bodies since the abolition of the Greater London council and the metropolitan county councils.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give details of all directions issued to residuary bodies in respect of the recovery of sums from local authorities received in contravention of section 91 of and schedule 15 to the Local Government Act 1985.
No such directions have been issued.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give details of all directions issued by his Department to residuary bodies in respect of land and buildings.
None has been issued.