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Local Government Finance

Volume 270: debated on Monday 22 January 1996

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the bids for reorganisation costs for 1996–97 that have been made by those local authorities subject to reorganisation on 1 April 1995, 1996 and 1997 and the proportion of the bids which have now been allocated supplementary credit approval cover for 1996–97. [10840]

The amounts are as follows:

BidAllocationAllocation as percentage of bid
1995 Reorganisation
Isle of Wight Council1,02950049
1996 Reorganisations
Hartlepool Borough
Council3,6382,15059
Redcar and Cleveland
Council3,9803,40085
Middlesbrough Borough
Council3,2002,75086
Stockton on Tees Borough
Council7,2093,25045
Bath and North East
Somerset Council11,7421
Bristol City Council13,8261
North West Somerset
Council5,3013,00057
South Gloucestershire
Council9,5413,00037
East Riding Yorkshire
Council18,9401
Kingston-upon-Hull
Council10,5441
North Lincolnshire Council5,6253,50062
North-East Lincolnshire
Council6,8084,00059
North Yorkshire County
Council49240081
Selby District Council100100100
York District Council19,9751

Bid

Allocation

Allocation as percentage of bid

1997 Reorganisations

Bedfordshire County
Council4,0003008
Luton Borough Council6,3553,25051
Milton Keynes Borough
Council3,4522,50072
Derbyshire County Council6,1803005
Derby City Council7,8402,50032
Bournemouth Borough
Council8,2102,50030
Poole Borough Council2,9802,50084
Durham County Council96530031
Darlington Borough
Council4,7022,50053
East Sussex County
Council3,5853008
Brighton Borough Council1,25435028
Hove Borough Council1,71035020
Hampshire County Council5,1313006
Portsmouth City Council9,5612,50026
Southampton City Council6,0402,50041
Staffordshire County
Council5,326.73006
Stoke on Trent City
Council11,5392,50022
Wiltshire County Council1,5551006
Thamesdown Borough
Council9,1932,50027

1 The councils of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull City, Bristol City, Bath and North-East Somerset and York District have been asked to reconsider whether the reorganisations in their area could be implemented more economically. If they submit revised bids by the end of January, they will be considered and allocations made during February.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will update his answers of (a) 17 July 1995, Official Report, columns 868–69, to the hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Raynsford) and (b) 17 July 1995, Official Report, column 869, to the hon. Member for Wallsend (Mr. Byers) for the financial year 1994–95. [10942]

A list by region of the amounts of accumulated usable capital receipts for each English local authority at 31 March 1995 has been placed in the Library of the House. Figures for the amounts set aside as provision for credit liabilities at 31 March 1995 are not yet available.The regional totals for these amounts are:

Amounts held at 31 March 1995 (£ million)
RegionUsable receipts
South-East958
South-West123
East Anglia74
West Midlands78
East Midlands64
North-West91
Yorkshire and Humberside37
Northern39
Miscellaneous authorities (all regions)86
Total1,550