Housing Investment Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what were (a) the initial housing investment programme allocations and (b) the housing investment programme bids for each district council in Cumbria in constant 1991–92 prices for each year since 1979.

The available information on housing investment programme bids and allocations is as follows. The table also gives corresponding figures for gross capital expenditure on housing.

Housing Investment Programme (HIP) bids, allocations and gross capital expenditure in Cumbria by district, 1979–80 to 1992–93¹
Allerdale		£ thousands (1991–92 prices)
	HIP bids	Initial allocations	Final allocations	Gross capital expenditure²
1979–80	17,581	n/a	12,610	12,299
1980–81	17,521	n/a	8,285	9,526
1981–82	12,589	n/a	5,492	6,238
1982–83	10,824	n/a	7,513	7,251
1983–84	8,252	4,765	10,039	11,593
1984–85	8,812	4,987	5,336	5,452
1985–86	11,704	4,100	4,100	5,537
1986–87	17,339	3,348	3,348	4,732
1987–88	10,325	3,012	3,277	4,195
1988–89	8,700	2,274	3,133	4,199
1989–90	6,514	2,512	3,098	8,305

	HIP bids	Allocations	Allocations plus supplementary credit approvals	Gross capital expenditure
1990–91	7,537	3,009	3,009	5,136
1991–92	6,125	2,656	³3,741	n/a
1992–93	6,840	3,167	³3,167	n/a

Barrow-in-Furness
£ thousands (1991–92 prices)
	HIP bids	Initial allocations	Final allocations	²Gross capital expenditure
1979–80	9,076	n/a	5,331	5,876
1980–81	8,635	n/a	4,698	4,332
1981–82	7,290	n/a	3,830	3,523
1982–83	4,131	n/a	4,281	4,268
1983–84	4,465	3,815	4,942	5,911
1984–85	7,209	3,687	4,021	7,969
1985–86	8,953	3,154	3,154	5,648
1986–87	12,758	2,511	3,081	6,082
1987–88	12,517	2,318	3,569	6,170
1988–89	13,934	1,751	4,353	6,547
1989–90	9,675	1,320	3,178	6,600

	HIP bids	Allocations	Allocations plus supplementary credit approvals	²Gross capital expenditure
1990–91	5,575	2,442	2,638	4,157
1991–92	4,667	1,917	³1,942	n/a
1992–93	4,445	1,614	³1,614	n/a

Carlisle
£ thousands (1991–92 prices)
Year	HIP bids	Initial allocations	Final allocations	² Gross capital expenditure
1979–80	12,956	n.a.	9,610	10,585
1980–81	11,217	n.a.	6,644	6,285
1981–82	10,305	n.a.	5,176	5,465
1982–83	10,271	n.a.	5,402	5,958
1983–84	8,829	4,158	5,303	7,567
1984–85	11,118	4,599	4,599	6,413
1985–86	12,941	3,524	3,524	7,434
1986–87	14,676	3,069	3,069	8,625
1987–88	18,522	2,589	2,721	9,680
1988–89	17,440	2,046	2,348	8,869
1989–90	16,299	1,451	2,085	11,618

Year	HIP bids	Allocations	Allocations plus supplementary credit approvals	²Gross capital expenditure
1990–91	14,638	4,880	5,426	7,486
1991–92	16,882	4,301	³5,454	n.a.
1992–93	17,957	5,225	³5,225	n.a.

Copeland
£ thousands (1991–92 prices)
	HIP bids	Initial allocations	Final allocations	²Gross capital expenditure
1979–80	9,294	n/a	8,064	7,388
1980–81	13,823	n/a	5,671	4,705
1981–82	10,494	n/a	5,366	5,415
1982–83	5,131	n/a	4,610	4,538
1983–84	4,741	3,384	3,916	5,429
1984–85	6,832	3,436	3,436	4,903

	HIP bids	Initial allocations	Final allocations	²Gross capital expenditure
1985–86	6,597	2,668	2,668	5,740
1986–87	11,920	2,303	2,303	4,917
1987–88	7,114	1,961	2,196	9,465
1988–89	7,438	1,493	1,970	9,557
1989–90	6,128	1,067	2,299	8,881

	HIP bids	Allocations	Allocations plus supplementary credit approvals	²Gross capital expenditure
1990–91	4,284	2,038	2,038	3,211
1991–92	6,262	1,515	³1,731	n/a
1992–93	9,012	1,623	³1,623	n/a

Eden
£ thousands (1991–92 prices)
	HIP bids	Initial allocations	Final allocations	²Gross capital expenditure
1979–80	2,949	n/a	2,503	1,909
1980–81	3,271	n/a	2,299	2,113
1981–82	3,514	n/a	2,180	1,933
1982–83	3,072	n/a	1,984	2,502
1983–84	3,097	1,397	1,734	3,320
1984–85	3,042	1,726	1,726	1,741
1985–86	2,567	1,308	1,308	2,039
1986–87	3,298	1,186	1,186	1,714
1987–88	3,567	962	966	2,055
1988–89	2,903	671	671	1,884
1989–90	2,431	521	521	1,851

	HIP bids	Allocations	Allocations plus supplementary credit approvals	²Gross capital expenditure
1990–91	2,337	825	825	2,529
1991–92	2,156	948	³1,371	n/a
1992–93	2,781	1,115	³1,115	n/a

South Lakeland
£ thousands (1991–92 prices)
	HIP bids	Initial allocations	Final allocations	Gross capital expenditure²
1979–90	5,447	n/a	4,202	3,206
1980–81	5,060	n/a	3,711	2,537
1981–82	5,168	n/a	3,988	3,403
1982/83	4,218	n/a	3,008	4,373
1983–84	4,257	3,384	4,000	4,661
1984–85	6,186	3,177	3,177	2,914
1985–86	6,265	2,409	2,431	4,889
1986–87	5,686	2,041	2,066	5,069
1987–88	4,977	1,770	1,790	5,878
1988–89	5,957	1,235	1,235	4,951
1989–90	6,661	868	868	6,986

	HIP bids	Allocations	Allocations plus supplementary credit approvals	Gross capital expenditure²
1990–91	6,303	1,234	1,234	3,983
1991–92	6,141	1,399	³1,631	n/a
1992–93	5,834	1,590	³1,590	n/a
¹ A new capital finance system was introduced at the beginning of 1990–91 and the figures for allocations for 1990–91 and subsequent

years are, therefore, not directly comparable with the figures for earlier years. Under the new system the HIP allocation is an assessment of relative need for housing capital expenditure rather than a direct borrowing approval. Borrowing approval is now conveyed by the single, cross-service, basic credit approval, which is set at a level which takes account of each authority's ability to finance expenditure from usable capital receipts.

² Since 1981–82 local authorities have been able to augment the borrowing power of their HIP allocations by using the prescribed proportion of their capital receipts.

³ These figures reflect the latest position and are not yet final. n/a = Not available.

Volume 210: debated on Thursday 25 June 1992