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Sir Rhodes Boyson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the total amount of credit approvals/capital allocations given to local authorities in (a) England, (b) Greater London and (c) the south-east, excluding Greater London, for each year since 1982–83; and what is his estimate for 1992–93.
Mr. Curry
The information is as follows:
| Local authority capital allocations | |||
| £ million | |||
| Year | England | Greater London | South-east1 |
| 1982–83 | 4,288 | 1,179 | 593 |
| 1983–84 | 4,101 | 1,041 | 605 |
| 1984–85 | 3,730 | 1,014 | 554 |
| 1985–86 | 3,209 | 739 | 512 |
| 1986–87 | 2,977 | 680 | 474 |
| 1987–88 | 2,975 | 671 | 455 |
| 1988–89 | 3,094 | 740 | 475 |
| 1989–90 | 2,904 | 635 | 454 |
| 1 Excluding Greater London. | |||
| Local authority credit approvals | ||||
| £ million | ||||
| Year | Issued1 England | England | Used2 Greater London | South-east3 |
| 1990–91 | 2,827 | 2,786 | 744 | 386 |
| 41991–92 | 3,222 | 3,139 | 752 | 544 |
| 51992–93 | 3,287 | 3,171 | 707 | 531 |
| 1 Total credit approvals issued to local authorities by central Government Departments. Excludes credit approvals issued by Department of Transport to certain local authority owned airport companies. A breakdown of credit approvals issued by region is not readily available. | ||||
| 2 Total credit approvals used, as reported by local authorities to the Department. Figures may differ from credit approval issued because of under-use of credit approvals and because authorities may have underestimated credit approvals. | ||||
| 3 Excluding Greater London. | ||||
| 4 Outturn (provisional). | ||||
| 5 Estimate. | ||||