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Mr. David Nicholson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the total amount of debt incurred by each English shire county for the latest year for which figures are available.
Mr. Chope
The information requested is set out in the table:
Total debt outstanding at 31 March 1989 | |
£ million | |
Avon | 155 |
Bedfordshire | 178 |
Berkshire | n/a |
Buckinghamshire | 123 |
Cambridgeshire | 105 |
Cheshire | 193 |
Cleveland | 282 |
Cornwall | 91 |
Cumbria | 105 |
Derbyshire | 203 |
Devon | 211 |
Dorset | 138 |
Durham | 53 |
East Sussex | 128 |
Essex | n/a |
Gloucestershire | 92 |
Hampshire | 156 |
Hereford and Worcester | n/a |
Hertfordshire | 128 |
Humberside | 157 |
Isle of Wight | 35 |
Kent | 221 |
Lancashire | 360 |
Leicestershire | 181 |
Lincolnshire | 104 |
Norfolk | 53 |
Northamptonshire | 147 |
Northumberland | 48 |
North Yorkshire | 99 |
Nottinghamshire | 208 |
Oxfordshire | 82 |
Shropshire | 68 |
Somerset | 72 |
Staffordshire | 245 |
Suffolk | 108 |
Surrey | 249 |
Warwickshire | 92 |
West Sussex | 32 |
Wiltshire | 47 |
n/a = Berkshire, Essex and Hereford and Worcester have not yet submitted returns. |