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Local Government Finance

Volume 263: debated on Monday 17 July 1995

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list by region the total amount of (a) useable and (b) set-aside capital receipts held by each local authority in England at 31 March. [33473]

[pursuant to his reply, 12 July 1995, c. 578]: Four local authorities in the south-east were omitted from the list provided. I am therefore placing a revised list of local authorities in the Library to the House.This also affects the totals for the south-east region which should have read "Usable Receipts £1,206 million and PCL set aside £2,912 million."

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the level of capital receipts held by each local authority for the latest year available and the total for each region and nationally. [34645]

A list by region of the amounts of accumulated usable capital receipts and the amounts set aside as provision for credit liabilities for each English local authority at 31 March 1994 has been placed in the Library of the House.The regional totals for these amounts are:

Amounts held as at 31 March 1994 (£ million)
RegionUsable receiptsPLC set aside
South East1,2062,912
South West162629
East Anglia93323
West Midlands117437
East Midlands123508
North West142489
Yorkshire and Humberside79460
Northern65225
Miscellaneous authorities (all regions)7458
Total2,0616,041
The provision for credit liabilities includes amounts set aside from both capital receipts and revenue. Separate figures are not available.