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Mr. Tony Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a table of expenditure on the regional offices of Government Ministries in 1989–90, broken down by Ministry and separating out the cost of running the regional office from the funding programmes it discharges and showing the expenditure on, and of, each regional office separately.
Mr. Heseltine
[holding answer 22 January 1991]: The estimated costs of running each regional office of the
| Table 2 | |||||||
| Department of the Environment/spending in England by standard economic planning regions in 1989–90 (£M) | |||||||
| Standard economic planning regions | Rate support grant | Other service basic capital allocations to LAs | Community charge preparation allocations to LAs | Urban development corporations | Urban Programme | Housing subsidy paid to local authorities | Housing investment Programme allocation to authorities |
| South east | 2,849 | 60·9 | 51·5 | 255·8 | 50·7 | 516·7 | 452·2 |
| South West | 785 | 17·6 | 13·1 | 5·0 | 2·5 | 2·9 | 62·3 |
| East Anglia | 285 | 8·4 | 5·7 | — | — | 0·3 | 26·4 |
| West Midlands | 1,053 | 17·1 | 13·9 | 3·8 | 41·0 | 8·8 | 127·8 |
| East Midlands | 762 | 12·9 | 11·1 | — | 11·4 | 10·0 | 60·7 |
| North West | 1,695 | 20·4 | 17·2 | 47·3 | 73·5 | 29·7 | 186·6 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 1,306 | 19·5 | 13·3 | 18 3 | 27·2 | -0·2 | 106·3 |
| Northern Region | 843 | 11·2 | 8·6 | 17·8 | 41·7 | 16·2 | 72·5 |