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Mr. David Nicholson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those shire counties in England which overspent the targets or other assessments set by Government in each of the last two years for which figures are available, with the amount of overspending and the proportion this formed of the total spending in each case.
Mr. Chope
The information requested is as follows:
| 1987–88 Overspend | 1987–88 Percentage overspend | 1988–89 Overspend | 1988–89 Percentage overspend | |
| £ million | £ million | |||
| Northamptonshire | 0·5 | 0·2 | 4·9 | 1·9 |
| Northumberland | 6·3 | 5·2 | 10·3 | 7·9 |
| Nottinghamshire | 25·0 | 5·9 | 47·9 | 10·5 |
| Oxfordshire | 3·5 | 1·8 | 11·8 | 5·5 |
| Somerset | 1·4 | 0·8 | 4·3 | 2·2 |
| Warwickshire | -2·5 | -1·3 | 7·6 | 3·6 |
| West Sussex | 17·7 | 6·9 | -15·9 | -5·7 |
| Wiltshire | -2·6 | -1·2 | 7·1 | 3·0 |