Rate-Deficiency Grants, Northumberland Mr. Owen asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the amount of Exchequer equalisation grant to the Northumberland County Council and to each borough council and urban district council in the area, for the years 1960–61 and 1961–62. Mr. Brooke In England and Wales Exchequer equalisation grants were renamed rate-deficiency grants in 1959. The provisional amounts of the grants for 1961–62 to the authorities named are the same as those for 1960–61 because they were calculated from data for 1960–61, the latest available at the time of calculation. They will be recalculated on later data in due course. The amounts provisionally are as follows: ------------------------------- | | ------------------------------- | | ------------------------------- |Northumberland County Council| ------------------------------- |Non-County Boroughs || ------------------------------- |Berwick-on-Tweed | ------------------------------- |Blyth | ------------------------------- |Morpeth | ------------------------------- |Wallsend | ------------------------------- |Whitley Bay | ------------------------------- |Urban Districts || ------------------------------- |Alnwick | ------------------------------- |Amble | ------------------------------- |Ashington | ------------------------------- |Bedlingtonshire | ------------------------------- |Gosforth | ------------------------------- |Hexham | ------------------------------- |Longbenton | ------------------------------- |Newbiggin | ------------------------------- |Newburn | ------------------------------- |Prudhoe | ------------------------------- |Leaton Valley | -------------------------------