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Housing (Rural Areas)
Mr. Amos : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps he is taking to encourage the provision of low-cost housing in rural areas.
Mr. Ashton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide additional finance for housing in small rural communities.
Mr. Trippier : I refer my hon. Friend and the hon. Member to the answer that I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley (Mr. Cran) on 8 February at columns 726-27 .
Bed-and-Breakfast Accommodation
Mr. McCartney : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give the latest figures for families in bed-and-breakfast accommodation in England and Wales.
Mr. Trippier : Latest estimates of households temporarily placed in bed-and-breakfast accommodation by English local authorities appear in table 4(a) of "Local authorities' action under the homelessness provisions of the 1985 Housing Act : England. Results for the third quarter of 1988. Supplementary Tables", which is available in the Library.
For Welsh figures, I refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
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Housing Defects
Mr. Frank Cook : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has any proposals to reform the Housing Defects Act 1984.
Mr. Trippier : We have recently consulted on possible changes intended to streamline the housing defects scheme of assistance for house owners ; copies of the Department's consultation letter are in the Library. We are considering responses and will reach decisions as soon as we can.
Isle of Dogs Enterprise Zone
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether firms located in the Isle of Dogs enterprise zone at 26 April 1992, when the enterprise zone scheme ceases, will become liable for payment of unified business rates at the full amount.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : The consultation document on the arrangements for phasing in the effects of the uniform business rate and the 1990 revaluation issued by the Department yesterday, copies of which are in the Library, proposes that phasing of rate bills should not apply to properties in enterprise zones when those come to an end.
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a breakdown on a year by year basis of the total rate allowance claimed in the Isle of Dogs enterprise zone.
Mr. Trippier : The information is as follows :
|£
---------------------------------
1982-83 |1,093,665
1983-84 |1,509,245
1984-85 |2,290,567
1985-86 |2,192,527
1986-87 |3,192,998
1987-88 |5,077,452
1988-89 |11,697,261
London Docklands
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will give the new address of each firm that has been relocated from the London docklands urban development area with London Docklands development corporation assistance ;
(2) if he will provide a breakdown by economic sector of those firms that have been relocated from the London docklands urban development area with London Docklands development corporation assistance ;
(3) how many firms have been relocated from the London docklands urban development area with London Docklands development corporation assistance ; and what was the total cost to the corporation of these relocations.
Mr. Trippier : I shall write to the hon. Member.
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide an estimate of the number or proportion of the jobs attracted to the London docklands urban development area that have gone to residents of the London boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and Southwark and the basis for any estimate given.
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Mr. Trippier : Of the 20,317 jobs attracted to the LDDC area since 1981, some 4,955, approximately one in four, have gone to residents of Newham, Southwark or Tower Hamlets.
This estimate is based on surveys of employment in the LDDC area in 1985 and 1987 commissioned by LDDC, and relates only to "employing establishments". There are a further 5,668 jobs in "other employments", for example one man businesses and construction sites. An unknown proportion of these jobs will also be held by residents of the three boroughs.
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 23 January, Official Report, column 457, if he will provide a breakdown by economic sector of the 41 firms employing 10 or more people that closed between 1981 and 31 March 1988 in the London docklands urban development area.
Mr. Trippier : The information requested is as follows
SIC code |Number of firms
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1 Energy and water |1
2 Extraction of minerals; Manufacture of metals |3
3 Metal goods/vehicles industry |3
4 Other manufacturing |8
5 Construction |4
6 Distribution, Hotels, Catering, Repairs |14
7 Transport and Communications |8
|--
|41
Enterprise Zones
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what sums have been paid to each local authority in the United Kingdom in lieu of rates forgone from enterprise zones for each of the years 1985-86, 1986- 87, and 1987-88, respectively.
Mr. Trippier : Payments to local authorities in England in lieu of rate revenue forgone in enterprise zones for the years 1985-86, 1986-87 and 1987-88 are
|c|Rate revenue foregone in enterprise zones in England|c|
Local authority |1985-86 |1986-87 |1987-88
|£ |£ |£
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Allerdale DC |194,144 |395,657 |223,208
Burnley BC |191,357 |298,216 |374,204
Corby DC |2,218,820 |2,910,965 |3,525,720
Dudley MBC |2,013,690 |3,075,557 |4,140,797
Gateshead MBC |2,638,897 |5,033,264 |8,245,316
Gillingham BC |328,307 |442,456 |537,537
Glanford BC |91,352 |69,187 |84,998
Gravesham BC |270,000 |464,379 |405,000
Hartlepool BC |416,477 |484,173 |882,353
Hyndburn BC |105,716 |172,022 |225,206
Liverpool City Council |1,853,441 |1,514,011 |2,279,287
Middlesbrough BC |436,244 |599,627 |830,644
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
City Council |1,396,925 |1,423,770 |1,323,318
Newham LBC |140,523 |160,579 |16,398
Pendle BC |54,720 |100,113 |125,379
Rochester Upon Medway
City Council |763,131 |907,536 |1,117,189
Rossendale BC |68,711 |143,707 |152,348
Rotherham MBC |616,295 |900,000 |1,322,538
Salford City Council |1,316,946 |2,402,410 |3,114,988
Scunthorpe BC |617,481 |884,015 |1,262,052
Tower Hamlets LBC |2,052,004 |3,032,419 |5,061,054
Trafford MBC |1,777,069 |2,536,069 |2,761,715
Wakefield MBC |871,066 |1,144,653 |1,210,739
Wellingborough BC |224,653 |466,823 |2,448,341
Wrekin DC |555,602 |1,608,298 |1,804,880
Note The table shows payments made in each financial year. Claims in respect of any
one financial are not always made before the end of that year and may consequently be
paid in a following year.
Grants (London)
Mr. Fraser : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the proposed allocations of city partnership and programme authority grants to London boroughs for 1989-90 and for 1988-89.
Mr. Trippier : I refer the hon. Member to the answers that I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Patnick) on 1 February at columns 215-17 and to the hon. Member for Burnley (Mr. Pike) on 3 February at columns 428-29.
Accommodation Agencies
Mr. Heddle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has any plans to conduct a review of the conduct of accommodation agencies.
Mr. Trippier : I have no plans to do so.
Housing Statistics
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list his initial housing investment programme allocations to local authorities in (a) inner London, (b) outer London, (c) the south-east outside London, (d) East Anglia, (e) the south-west, (f) the east midlands, (g) the west midlands, (h) Yorkshire and Humberside, (i) the north, (j) the north-west and (k) England as a whole for (1) 1989-90, (2) 1987-88, (3) 1985-86, (4) 1983-84, (5) 1981-82 and (6) 1979-80 at constant 1989-90 prices.
Mr. Trippier : A table giving the information requested has been laid in the Library. Since 1981-82 local authorities have been able to supplement their allocations by expenditure financed from capital receipts. Nationally, two thirds of local authorities spending power on housing in 1989-90 is expected to come from capital receipts.
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what was the number of local authority dwellings let through the national mobility scheme and for London's other schemes (a) in total and (b) to homeless households between 1 April 1987 and 31 March 1988, in (i) Greater London, (ii) in metropolitan areas, (iii) in non-metropolitan areas in the south-east, (iv) in all non-metropolitan areas and (v) in England as a whole ;
(2) what was (a) the total number of households and (b) the number of homeless households taking up nominations made between 1 April 1987 and 31 March 1988 by local authorities to secure housing association or new town tenancies in (i) Greater London, (ii) other metropolitan areas, (iii) in non-metropolitan areas in the south-east, (iv) in all non-metropolitan areas and (v) in England as a whole ; (3) what was (a) the total number of homeless households and (b) the number of homeless households in
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priority need for whom local authorities accepted responsibility between 1 April 1987 and 31 March 1988, for securing accommodation in (i) Greater London, (ii) in other metropolitan areas, (iii) in non-metropolitan areas in the south-east, (iv) in allnon-metropolitan areas and (v) in England as a whole ;
(4) how many local authority dwellings were (a) vacant and available for letting on 1 April 1987 and (b) became available for letting between 1 April 1987 and 31 March 1988 (i) through new build, (ii) through acquisition, modernisation or conversion, (iii) through other means, including vacation by existing tenants in (a) Greater London, (b) in other metropolitan areas, (c) in non-metropolitan areas in the south-east, (d) in all non-metropolitan areas and (e) England as a whole ;
(5) what is the number of local authority dwellings let to new tenants as secure tenancies (a) in total and (b) to homeless households between 1 April 1987 and 31 March 1988 in (i) Greater London, (ii) in metropolitan areas outside London, (iii) in non-metropolitan areas in the south-east, (iv) in all
non-metropolitan areas and (v) in England as a whole.
Mr. Trippier : I refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave him yesterday.
Chlorofluorocarbons
Mr. Stern : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many nations are sending delegates or observers to the March conference on limitation of the use of chlorofluorocarbons.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : Invitations to the "Saving the Ozone Layer" London conference on 5 to 7 March have gone to over 150 countries active within the United Nations environment programme (UNEP). We already expect over 90 to be represented, some 75 at ministerial level. We are receiving further acceptances daily.
Rating Reform
Dr. Cunningham : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what instructions he proposes to give to (a) community charges registration officers, (b) charging authorities, and (c) valuation and community charge tribunals, concerning the provision of material in ethnic minority languages and translation facilities ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Ridley : A practice note on the community charge canvass issued last November advised registration officers of the need to provide guidance in languages other than English in some areas. To assist those authorities with substantial ethnic minority populations the Department will make available translations of the model form and notes in Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati and Punjabi. Camera-ready copy will be available to registration officer and charging authorities, free of charge, early next month.
Lead Pollution
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has on the level of lead in the atmosphere which is considered acceptable in the urban environment and the level which is considered to be detrimental to the health of pedestrians and to the public at large.
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Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : In order to help protect humans against the effect of lead in the environment, the EC directive on lead in air (82/884/EEC) sets a limit value of 2 microgrammes per cubic metre of air (2 mg/m ), expressed as an annual average of measured levels.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will provide detailed information of the locations at which the lead content of air in Cardiff was measured during the past two years ; what levels were recorded ; and if he will give the dates on which measurements were made, and the methods used.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : Lead in air levels have been monitored since 1985 at a site in Waungron road, Cardiff. Monitoring has been continuous, using Warren Spring laboratory's M-type sampler, a method which complies with the requirements of the EC directive of lead in air (82/884/EEC).
The following results have been recorded :
Year |Annual Average Lead
|Concentrations (mg/m<3>)
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1985 |1.28
1986 |0.63
1987 |0.67
Results for 1988 are not yet available.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what evidence he has available of levels of lead pollution in the air in Cardiff over the last 10 years ; what trends have been reflected in measurements taken during the period ; and what steps he is taking to reduce lead pollution in the atmosphere in Cardiff and elsewhere in England and Wales.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : Lead in air levels in Cardiff have been continuously monitored since 1985. From 1 January 1986 measured levels have decreased by approximately 50 per cent. following the reduction in the permitted lead content of petrol to 0.15 g per litre. To bring about further reductions in lead in air levels, the Government are continuing vigorously to encourage the wider use of unleaded petrol.
Drinking Water
Dr. Cunningham : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 17 January to the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Neale), Official Report , column 147 , on which date he wrote to the South West water authority informing it that an emergency derogation under article 10 of the EC drinking water directive (80/778/EEC) would not be appropriate.
Mr. Ridley : No letter was sent to the South West water authority to inform it that an article 10 derogation would not be appropriate. On 24 October 1988 my Department wrote to the authority agreeing to its withdrawal of its application for a derogation.
Landfill
Mr. Hoyle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will take steps to make funds available for remedial action at the landfill site at Moss lane, Rixton, Warrington, to make the site safe, in the light of the evidence of unauthorised dumping ;
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(2) if he will make a statement on the circumstances surrounding the dumping of waste designated for incineration at the landfill site at Moss lane, Rixton, Warrington, and as to the nature of the waste and the period over which it was dumped ;(3) if he will institute a public inquiry into the dumping of toxic waste at the landfill site at Moss land, Rixton, Warrington ; (4) what information he has as to (a) the source and (b) the nature of the waste designated for incineration which has been dumped at a landfill site at Moss lane, Rixton, Warrington ;
(5) what assessment he has made of the threat to public health of the discovery of waste designated for incineration being dumped at a landfill site at Moss lane, Rixton, Warrington.
Mr. Butler : To ask the Secretary of State of the Environment what information he has as to clinical waste derived from AIDS patients which are disposed to landfill.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley [holding answer 9 February 1989] : I have asked Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution to carry out a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deposit of clinical waste at the landfill at Moss lane, Rixton, Cheshire, and particularly what enforcement action WDA is proposing to take. There are no plans to instigate a formal public inquiry.
Local Councils (Statistics)
Mr. French : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will state in tabular form, for (a) Tower Hamlets, (b) Richmond upon Thames, (c) Sutton London borough, (d) Calderdale and (e) Stockport metropolitan district (i) which political party or groups of parties control the council, (ii) what has been the percentage change in spending by the council in each financial year since 1986-87, (iii) what has been the change in staffing levels in whole-time equivalents for each year since 1985 and (iv) what has been the change in the rate poundage, expressed as a percentage for each financial year since 1986-87 ;
(2) if he will give in tabular form for (a) Bedfordshire county council, (b) Cambridgeshire county council, (c) Cheshire county council, (d) Cumbria county council (e)
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Devon county council, (f) Gloucester county council, (g) Humberside county council, (h) Isle of Wight county council, (i) Lancashire county council, (j) Leicestershire county council, (k) Shropshire county council, (l) Somerset county council, (m) Warwickshire county council, and (n) Wiltshire county council (i) which political party of groups of parties has control of the council, (ii) what has been the percentage change in spending by the council in each financial year since 1986-87, (iii) what has been the change in staffing levels, in whole-time equivalents, for each year since 1985, (iv) what has been the change in the rate poundage expressed, as a percentage, for each financial year since 1986-87, (v) which councils are a nuclear-free Zone and (vi) which councils, acting as a local education authority employ staff to teach peace studies as part of the curriculum.Mr. Gummer [holding answer 13 February 1989] : The information for the authorities listed is as follows :
|c|Table A|c|
|c|Percentage change in net current expenditure|c|
|c|and local rate poundage|c|
Percentage change in Percentage change in
net current expenditure local rate poundage
|1986-87 to 1987-88 |1987-88 to 1988-89<1>|1986-87 to 1987-88 |1987-88 to 1988-89
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Bedfordshire |9.1 |9.4 |21.1 |6.1
Cambridgeshire |10.0 |12.1 |6.2 |4.9
Cheshire |10.0 |13.6 |9.1 |10.0
Cumbria |9.4 |5.7 |2.7 |5.5
Devon |9.5 |10.3 |7.3 |11.3
Gloucestershire |11.6 |8.7 |7.9 |11.9
Humberside |8.7 |9.0 |10.7 |20.3
Isle of Wight |9.4 |7.7 |10.0 |9.7
Lancashire |10.7 |9.1 |7.3 |18.5
Leicestershire |9.8 |8.9 |5.0 |11.0
Shropshire |10.1 |9.9 |7.6 |8.7
Somerset |11.7 |11.5 |7.8 |11.7
Warwickshire |12.0 |6.7 |7.9 |15.9
Wiltshire |9.4 |12.1 |9.9 |7.8
Tower Hamlets |2.6 |1.9 |4.7 |11.6
Richmond upon
Thames |8.2 |5.9 |12.3 |10.7
London Borough of
Sutton |11.4 |12.9 |18.9 |9.6
Calderdale |6.9 |12.2 |5.1 |18.1
Stockport |10.3 |8.4 |8.6 |8.8
<1> Using local authority 1988-89 budgets.
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|c|Table B|c|
|c|Changes in staffing levels<1> since 1985|c|
Authority Total staff (Change at June,
plus part-timcompared with a year
earlier
|at June 1985|<3>1986 |1987 |198
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Bedfordshire |18,441 |+972 |+852 |+191
Cambridgeshire |19,182 |+1,732 |+1,082 |+191
Cheshire |35,123 |+1,069 |+1,872 |-646
Cumbria |19,044 |+9 |+286 |+100
Devon |30,930 |+728 |+866 |+138
Gloucestershire |16,913 |+175 |+709 |+99
Humberside |34,790 |+416 |+1,929 |-146
Isle of Wight |4,000 |-51 |+63 |+131
Lancashire |51,345 |+148 |+406 |+2,109
Leicestershire |32,649 |+510 |-146 |+2,133
Shropshire |13,882 |+328 |+524 |-123
Somerset |15,031 |+477 |+703 |+704
Warwickshire |17,204 |+65 |+959 |+283
Wiltshire |19,493 |+142 |+840 |<4>-
Tower Hamlets |4,764 |+1,726 |+374 |<4>-
Richmond-upon-Thames |5,320 |+181 |+146 |+195
London borough of Sutton |5,459 |-260 |+449 |-21
Calderdale |8,827 |+453 |+255 |-4
Stockport |11,003 |+260 |+587 |+802
<1> Figures are for general services (ie excluding law and order services).
<2> Full-time equivalent figures are not available at individual authority level.
<3> The abolition of the Greater London council and Metropolitan county councils in April
1986, and the consequent transfer of staff to the London boroughs and Metropolitan
districts, will have affected individual authorities differently.
<4> Data not available.
Only three authorities of those listed--Richmond-upon-Thames, London borough of Sutton and the Isle of Wight--are currently controlled by a single party. In each case SLD has overall control. Information is not held centrally on authorities which have declared themselves to be nuclear free zones, or which employ staff to teach peace studies as part of the curriculum.
Sea Water (Pollution)
Ms. Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give up-to-date figures on the volume of sewage pumped into British coastal waters each day and the percentage of sewage that is untreated.
Mr. Moynihan [holding answer 14 February 1989] : Approximately 2 million cu m of sewage are discharged into coastal waters in England and Wales each day. The discharge of sewage into the sea is regulated under the Control of Pollution Act 1974 and water authorities have to obtain consents which are legally enforceable from Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution. In addition, all new long sea outfalls must be designed so as to ensure that the affected bathing waters meet the mandatory requirements of the EC bathing water directive.
Local Authorities (Funding)
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the total rate support grant to Cambridgeshire county council in each year from 1983-84 to 1989-90 in (a) cash terms and (b) 1989 prices together with the amount of grant withheld in those years when expenditure exceeded Government targets for the county council.
Mr. Gummer [holding answer 14 February 1989] : The table shows the latest figures for total rate support grant payable to Cambridgeshire county council for each year from 1983-84 to 1989-90 in both cash and 1989-90 prices.
In 1984-85 the grant of Cambridgeshire county council was abated by £4.152 million in cash terms (£5.311 million at 1989-90 prices) because its total expenditure exceeded Government targets.
|c|Rate Support Grant payable to Cambridgeshire County
Council|c|
|c|under latest supplementary report and 1989-90 settlement
report|c|
£ million
|Cash prices |1989-90 prices
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1983-84 |76.567 |102.897
1984-85 |76.122 |97.373
1985-86 |72.378 |87.842
1986-87 |63.220 |74.251
1987-88 |66.786 |74.507
1988-89 |61.977 |65.075
1989-90 |54.807 |54.807
Water Charges
Mrs. Margaret Ewing : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report (a) the domestic water charges and (b) the industrial metered water charges per cubic metre to be levied by each English and Welsh Water Authority after 1 April 1989 ; and what charges were levied in the previous financial year.
Mr. Moynihan [holding answer 15 February 1989] : Information in the form requested by the hon. Member is not yet available.
Repairs
Mr. Soley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his latest estimate of the number of tenants who have (a) applied for and (b) received payment for repairs carried out under the right to repairs scheme introduced under the Housing and Building Control Act 1984 in (i) 1986, (ii) 1987, and (iii)1988 ; what is the total cost of payments made under this scheme in each of these years ; and what has been the cost to the Government and local authorities in introducing and administering this scheme.
Mr. Trippier [holding answer 15 February 1989] : The number of claims and their total cost in each of these years is shown in the table. The Department has incurred total costs of some £40,000 in informing tenants of the scheme and on training them ; administrative costs for the scheme are not identified separately. Information on local authorities' costs other than on meeting claims is not collected by the Department.
England |Total number of claims |Total number of claims |Total amount agreed<1> £
|received for payment |agreed<1> for payment
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1986 |46 |42 |4,400
1987 |24 |22 |1,900
1988 (Q1)
(provisional) |1 |1 |200
<1>Accepted by landlords as payable.
Rivers (Derbyshire)
Mr. Harry Barnes : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many storm sewage overflows discharge into Derbyshire rivers ; how many of these are subject to consent conditions other than volumetric conditions ; and how many failed to achieve their consent conditions during the last 12 months for which figures are availble.
Mr. Moynihan [holding answer 15 February 1989] : Information on discharge consents is not held by the Department in a form which would allow the identification of discharges in any particular area. Details of consents
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granted are, however, on the public registers maintained by water authorities--in the case of discharges in the Derbyshire area, by the Severn-Trent water authority.Conditions normally imposed in consents for storm overflows are of volumetric nature relating to the point at which they commence operation. Non-compliance with any condition other than those does not therefore arise.
Caravan Sites
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many (i) local authority and (ii) authorised private, individual sites under section 6 of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 exist in each of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk ; and if he will also list those districts within these counties which have (a) applied and (b) been approved for designation under section 12 of the Act as amended by the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.
Mr. Trippier [holding answer 15 February 1989] : My Department holds records of sites provided under section 6 of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 with grant aid from the Exchequer. Although this excludes private sites, information collected for the Department's latest six- monthly count reveals the number of caravans on such sites. The details are as follows :
|(a) |(b) |(c)
County |Number of local authority|Number of caravans on |Number of caravans on
|sites at 1 January 1989 |local authority sites as |private sites as at 20
|at 20 July 1988 |July 1988
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Bedfordshire |7 |125 |11
Cambridgeshire |12 |269 |178
Essex |9 |84 |66
Hertfordshire |9 |183 |27
Lincolnshire |4 |127 |3
Norfolk |3 |56 |24
Suffolk |2 |74 |80
Applications for designation under section 12 of the 1968 Act, as amended, are as follows:
|(b) |(b)
|Applications pending|Applications granted
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Bedfordshire |- |All districts
Cambridgeshire |East Cambridgeshire |Huntingdon
|Peterborough
Essex |Epping Forest |-
Hertfordshire |- |Broxbourne
|Watford
|Dacorum<1>
|Welwyn-Hatfield<1>
Lincolnshire |- |Boston
|Lincoln CB
|West Lindsey
Norfolk |- |Great Yarmouth
Suffolk |- |Babergh
|Ipswich
|Mid Suffolk
|Suffolk Coastal
<1> Formal order making in progress.
Cambridgeshire County Council
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what were the annual changes in (i) total
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expenditure and (ii) net expenditure after block grant for Cambridgeshire county council for each year from 1983-84 to 1988-89.Mr. Gummer [holding answer 15 February 1989] : The information requested is as follows :
|c|£ million cash prices|c|
Annual changes in |Total expenditure |Total expenditure less
|block grant
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1983-84-1984-85 |11.274 |11.719
1984-85-1985-86 |8.392 |12.136
1985-86-1986-87 |26.739 |35.897
1986-87-1987-88 |19.609 |16.043
1987-88-1988-89 |28.781 |33.590
Structure Plan (North-East Hampshire)
Dr. Cunningham : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he will announce his decisions in respect of alterations to the north- east Hampshire structure plan.
Mr. Ridley [holding answer 15 February 1989] : I am considering the report of the examination in public and will send my proposed modifications to Hampshire county council as soon as possible.
Water (Grants)
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what funds will be available to water plcs after privatisation to cover schemes presently eligible for European regional development fund grants.
Mr. Chope : It is not known what sums will be available for providing grant from the ERDF. Areas eligible for grant and the value of the proportion of the fund they will attract have not yet been finalised by the European Commission.
Applications for grant will also need to satisfy the criteria laid down in the EC regulations.
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what sums each water authority has received as EC European regional development fund grants in each of the last four years.
Mr. Chope : The value of ERDF grants awarded to water authorities for infrastructure schemes in eligible areas in each of the last four years is as follows :
|1985 |1986 |1987 |1988
------------------------------------------------
Anglian |3.876 |- |- |-
North West |5.351 |40.582|22.995|3.305
Northumbrian |5.342 |3.546 |18.793|7.032
Severn Trent |3.352 |6.027 |6.886 |0.804
South West |0.595 |2.958 |3.747 |10.827
Yorkshire |12.865|0.905 |3.751 |4.873
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what sums South-West Water received in EC European regional development fund grants in 1987-88.
Mr. Chope : In the United Kingdom financial year 1987-88 ERDF grant to the value of £10.829 million was awarded to the South West water authority.
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HOUSE OF COMMONS
Production Costs
Mr. Allen : To ask the Lord President of the Council what is (a) the annual cost and (b) the nominal average cost per Member of the yearly production of (i) the full Vote bundle, (ii) the Official Report, (iii) written parliamentary questions and (iv) oral parliamentary questions.
Mr. Wakeham : The annual cost of production for (i) the full Vote bundle and (ii) the House of Commons
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Official Report is currently estimated at £5 million and £7.2 million respectively. Written and oral parliamentary questions form part of the above and are not separately identifiable. The annual cost figures quoted are for all copies produced, not just those supplied to Members, and--in the case of the Official Report --cover daily and weekly debates, indexes, bound volumes and Standing Committee debates.Based on 1988 volumes and current prices, the annual cost per Member of supplying one copy of (i) the Vote bundle and (ii) the daily Official Report would be £3,235 and £761 respectively.
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