To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what expenditure has now been incurred or sanctioned by his Department for each local authority concerned on damage repairs and environmental resuscitation following the hurricane of 15 October 1987; how much of this is financed by (a) the National Exchequer, (b) local authorities themselves; and if he will make a statement.
[holding answer 10 June 1988]: The Department has agreed to pay 75 per cent. of the amount by which a local authority's eligible expenditure under the special financial assistance scheme announced on 21 October 1987 exceeds the specified threshold for the authority. Such thresholds are calculated for each authority by reference to penny rate products. The amounts shown in the following list have been derived from the initial, unaudited claims submitted by local authorities, and may be subject to revision on receipt of final, audited claims. The first column of figures shows the total amount of expenditure, net of receipts, that the Department has provisionally accepted as eligible under the scheme. The second column lists the threshold
| Total eligible expenditure net of receipts | Threshold | Eligible expenditure attracting grant | |
| £ | £ | £ | |
| Non metropolitan counties | |||
| East Sussex | 3,400,000 | 1,041,000 | 2,359,000 |
| Essex | 2,598,000 | 2,458,000 | 140,000 |
| Isle of Wight | 170,000 | 145,000 | 25,000 |
| Kent | 6,981,000 | 1,997,000 | 4,984,000 |
| Suffolk | 921,000 | 850,000 | 71,000 |
| Surrey | 5,770,000 | 1,872,000 | 3,898,000 |
| West Sussex | 6,728,000 | 1,087,000 | 5,641,000 |
| London boroughs | |||
| Barking and Dagenham | 766,000 | 262,000 | 504,000 |
| Bexley | 834,000 | 319,000 | 515,000 |
| Bromley | 1,805,000 | 518,000 | 1,287,000 |
| Greenwich | 460,000 | 175,000 | 285,000 |
| Hackney | 576,000 | 227,000 | 349,000 |
| Lewisham | 394,000 | 189,000 | 205,000 |
| Merton | 639,000 | 309,000 | 330,000 |
| Sutton | 738,000 | 297,000 | 441,000 |
| Tower Hamlets | 729,900 | 280,500 | 449,400 |
| Wandsworth | 596,000 | 242,000 | 354,000 |
| Non metropolitan districts | |||
| Adur | 235,000 | 13,000 | 222,000 |
| Arun | 91,000 | 26,000 | 65,000 |
| Ashford | 259,000 | 18,000 | 241,000 |
| Babergh | 86,000 | 15,000 | 71,000 |
| Basildon | 91,000 | 39,000 | 52,000 |
| Basingstoke and Deane | 78,000 | 34,000 | 44,000 |
| Bournemouth | 40,000 | 38,000 | 2,000 |
| Bracknell | 74,000 | 24,000 | 50,000 |
| Braintree | 175,000 | 24,000 | 151,000 |
| Brentwood | 332,000 | 20,000 | 312,000 |
| Non metropolitan districts | |||
| Brighton | 302,000 | 38,000 | 264,000 |
| Broxbourne | 46,000 | 19,000 | 27,000 |
| Canterbury | 310,457 | 23,325 | 287,457 |
| Castlepoint | 66,000 | 18,000 | 48,000 |
| Chelmsford | 80,000 | 39,000 | 41,000 |
| Christchurch | 121,000 | 10,000 | 111,000 |
| Colchester | 56,000 | 30,000 | 26,000 |
| Dover | 57,000 | 18,000 | 39,000 |
| Eastbourne | 174,000 | 21,000 | 153,000 |
| East Hampshire | 38,300 | 20,000 | 18,300 |
| East Hertfordshire | 39,000 | 27,000 | 12,000 |
| Eastleigh | 55,900 | 23,500 | 32,400 |
| Elmbridge | 347,000 | 35,000 | 312,000 |
| Epsom and Ewell | 50,000 | 18,000 | 32,000 |
| Fareham | 92,000 | 21,000 | 71,000 |
| Forest Heath | 25,000 | 10,000 | 15,000 |
| Gillingham | 44,875 | 16,650 | 28,225 |
| Gosport | 153,000 | 15,000 | 138,000 |
| Gravesham | 96,000 | 19,000 | 77,000 |
| Great Yarmouth | 35,000 | 18,000 | 17,000 |
| Harlow | 24,000 | 21,000 | 3,000 |
| Hastings | 433,000 | 15,000 | 418,000 |
| Havant | 38,000 | 25,000 | 13,000 |
| Hertsmere | 62,000 | 24,000 | 38,000 |
| Horsham | 200,000 | 23,000 | 177,000 |
| Hove | 164,000 | 23,000 | 141,000 |
amounts, which have been applied by the Department. The 75 per cent. Exchequer grant applies to what is left after deducting eligible expenditure up to the threshold (in the second column of figures) from the total eligible expenditure (in the first column), and the third column of figures lists for each authority the amount to which the grant applies. The amount to be paid by the Department is therefore 75 per cent. of the amounts in the third column of figures. Three other local authorities, Hammersmith and Fulham, Waltham Forest, Welwyn and Hatfield, have submitted claims which at 13 June were still being checked by the Department.
Total eligible expenditure net of receipts
| Threshold
| Eligible expenditure attracting grant
| |
£
| £
| £
| |
| Ipswich | 278,000 | 29,000 | 249,000 |
| Lewes | 70,500 | 19,000 | 51,500 |
| Maidstone | 247,000 | 27,000 | 220,000 |
| Medina | 59,096 | 12,630 | 46,466 |
| Mid Suffolk | 26,000 | 13,000 | 13,000 |
| Mid Sussex | 489,000 | 27,000 | 462,000 |
| Mole Valley | 97,000 | 19,000 | 78,000 |
| New Forest | 58,000 | 37,000 | 21,000 |
| North Hertfordshire | 47,000 | 29,000 | 18,000 |
| Norwich | 178,000 | 34,000 | 144,000 |
| Poole | 69,000 | 32,000 | 37,000 |
| Portsmouth | 136,000 | 41,000 | 95,000 |
| Reigate and Banstead | 76,000 | 30,000 | 46,000 |
| Rochford | 71,134 | 16,050 | 55,084 |
| Rother | 47,000 | 18,000 | 29,000 |
Non metropolitan districts
| |||
| Rushmoor | 31,777 | 19,000 | 12,777 |
| Sevenoaks | 478,000 | 21,000 | 457,000 |
| Shepway | 233,250 | 20,920 | 212,330 |
| Southend | 454,000 | 41,000 | 413,000 |
| South Wight | 273,000 | 9,000 | 264,000 |
| Spelthorne | 42,000 | 34,000 | 8,000 |
| Stevenage | 38.000 | 21,000 | 17,000 |
| Suffolk Coastal | 49,000 | 23,000 | 26,000 |
| Swale | 246,000 | 19,000 | 227,000 |
| Tand ridge | 382,000 | 16,000 | 366,000 |
| Tendring | 27,695 | 24,000 | 3,695 |
| Thanet | 286,000 | 23,000 | 263,000 |
| Thurrock | 93,000 | 41,000 | 52,000 |
| Tonbridge and Mailing | 49,000 | 21,000 | 28,000 |
| Tunbridge Wells | 353,000 | 19,200 | 333,900 |
| Waveney | 24,000 | 19,000 | 5,000 |
| Waverley | 78,000 | 27,000 | 51,000 |
| Wealden | 92,000 | 23,000 | 69,000 |
| Woking | 43,000 | 25,000 | 18,000 |
| Worthing | 196,000 | 22,000 | 174,000 |