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Mr. Nigel Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list for the Isle of Wight, Cornwall, Somerset and each county council where no political party has overall control, (a) the population, (b) the capital budget for 1993–94 and (c) the revenue budget for 1993–94.
Mr. Robin Squire
[holding answer 21 May 1993]: The available information is as follows:
| Liberal-Democrat controlled county councils | |||
| Total population1 | Total capital budget 1993–94 £ million | Total revenue budget 1993–942 £ million | |
| Isle of Wight | 126,593 | 9·018 | 78·453 |
| Cornwall | 473,171 | 35·252 | 290·095 |
| Somerset | 469,373 | 43·900 | 271·355 |
| County councils with no political party in overall control | |||
| Total population1 | Total capital budget 1993–94 £ million | Total revenue budget 1993–942 £ million | |
| Avon | 962,037 | 39·830 | 570·767 |
| Bedfordshire | 534,276 | 20·179 | 352·125 |
| Berkshire | 752,471 | 46·558 | 465·589 |
| Cambridgeshire | 669,898 | 31·262 | 389·217 |
| Cheshire | 966,590 | 79·857 | 587·400 |
| Cumbria | 489,673 | 27·694 | 310·634 |
| Devon | 1,040,021 | 44·238 | 594·059 |
| Dorset | 663,091 | n.a. | 353·565 |
| East Sussex | 716,077 | 40·929 | 416·519 |
| Essex | 1,548,329 | 64·256 | 925·046 |
| Gloucestershire | 538,779 | 33·880 | 316·889 |
| Hampshire | 1,576,295 | 110·035 | 875·267 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 686,039 | 17·151 | 372·260 |
| Hertfordshire | 991,515 | 39·450 | 594·557 |
| Kent | 1,538,943 | 121·700 | 964·833 |
| Leicestershire | 890,832 | 37·525 | 554·413 |
| Lincolnshire | 592,556 | 47·999 | 357,829 |
| Norfolk | 759,363 | 41·617 | 442·260 |
| North Yorkshire | 720,626 | 43·408 | 396·419 |
| Oxfordshire | 579,650 | 37·310 | 325·369 |
| Shropshire | 412,534 | 25·905 | 241·354 |
| Suffolk | 661,853 | 36·850 | 373·373 |
Total population1
| Total capital budget 1993–94 £ million
| Total revenue budget 1993–942 £ million
| |
| Surrey | 1,033,611 | 75·512 | 535·000 |
| Warwickshire | 489,850 | 23·864 | 288·312 |
| West Sussex | 715,617 | 47·549 | 403·100 |
| Wiltshire | 577,399 | 22·813 | 324·509 |
Notes:
n. a. = information not yet returned by the authority.
1 Resident population at 30 June 1991 (provisional estimate, as used in the 1993–94 Settlement).
2 Net revenue expenditure as returned by authorities on the Budget Requirement (BR) return.