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Mr. Burt : The information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Residential training is not undertaken as a matter of routine, but it maximises the number of training hours in the working day and generally enhances the learning environment.
SCOTLAND
Cash Limits
Mr. Kynoch : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what changes he intends to make to the cash limits for 1992-93 within his responsibility.
Mr. Lang : Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimates I intend to make changes to 10 voted cash limits and in addition the two non-voted cash blocks. These include increases in
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provision to reflect the increased resources for capital expenditure under the special measures announced as part of the autumn statement in November 1992.The cash limit for Class XV, Vote 2, Agricultural services, agricultural grants and fisheries, Scotland will be decreased by £4, 000,000 from £126,684,000 to £122,684,000.
The cash limit for Class XV, Vote 3 : Training Programmes, Roads and Transport Services and Industrial Support, Scotland, will be increased by £17,522,000 from £713,689,000 to £731,211,000. An additional £8,500,000 is allocated to the Trunk Roads programme, £6, 460,000 to Scottish Enterprise, £1,530,000 to Highlands and Islands Enterprise, £700,000 to Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd. and £332, 000 to the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative. The cash limit for Class XV, Vote 5 : Housing and Environmental Services, Scotland, will be increased by £260,613,000 from £423,453, 000 to £684,066,000. Of this £250,139,000 will be used to increase grant -in-aid provision to Scottish Homes to enable the premature repayment of National Loans Fund debt. There will be a transfer of £9,361,000 from SO/LA2 to enable Scottish Homes to continue to improve housing quality within Scotland and provide assistance to Housing Associations for the purpose of acquiring stock from local authorities and new towns. £1,109,000 of the cash limit increase will be allocated to Historic Scotland of which £1,009,000 relates to an increase in provision for Historic Building repair grants, £54,000 to reflect part take-up of entitlement to end-year flexibility for running costs as announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 15 July 1992 ( Official Report , columns 698-702) and £55,000 to reflect a transfer of functions from Class XV, Vote 19. There is also a small increase of £4,000 to meet an unanticipated shortfall in Appropriations-in-Aid from repayments of loans and grants by first-time buyers.
The cash limit for Class XV, Vote 12 : Law, Order, Miscellaneous Health and Social Work Services, Scotland, wil be increased by £2,326,000 from £247,302,000 to £249,628,000. This includes an increased allocation to the Scottish Prison Service to bring forward a number of capital projects and take-up in full of £520,000 running costs and £803,000 End-Year Flexibility entitlement as announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 15 July (Official Report, Cols. 698-702).
The cash limit for Class XV, Vote 13 : Education, Arts and Libraries, Scotland, will be increased by £400,000 from £262,615,000 to £263,015,000. The additional resources will assist special schools and Jordanhill school with buildings expenditure.
The cash limit for Class XV, Vote 16 Scottish Record Office will be increased by £258,000 from £3,871,000 to £4,129,000 for the take-up of end-year felxibility entitlement as announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 15 July 1992 (Official Report, Cols. 698-702) and a transfer of £27,000 from Property Holdings. The cash limit for Class XV, Vote 19, Scottish Office Administration will be decreased by £1,375,000 from £152,875,000 to £151,500,000.
The cash limit for Class XV, Vote 17, The Registrar General for Scotland will be decreased by £560,000 from £7,912,000 to £7,352,000. This reduction takes into account the take-up of capital End-Year Flexibility entitlements amounting to £640,000 as announced by the Chief Secretary on 15 July 1992 (Official Report, Cols. 698-702). The cash limit for Class XV, Vote 20 : Revenue and rate support grants, Scotland will be decreased by £431,000 from £3,506,200,000 to £3,505,769,000.
The cash limit for Class XV, Vote 25 : Hospital, Community Health, Family Health (Part) and Other Health Services, Scotland will be increased by £12,033,000 from £2,601,445,000 to £2,613,478,000, for increased capital expenditure and also in respect of the part of an NHS Trust's charges that reflects the Trust's liability to remunerate its capital debt to the Consolidated Fund. In addition there will be transfers from this Vote of £6,408,000 to class XV Vote 15 (to take account of changes in the requirements for GP practice fundholders and the external financing limit for NHS trusts) and of £42,000 to class XV Vote 12 ; and a transfer to this Vote of £47,000 from class XIII, Vote 3.
The non-voted cash limit SO/LA1, which covers non-housing capital expenditure by local authorities, is to be increased by £31,462,000 from £622,125,000 to £653,587,000. This increase reflects £20,850,000 of Special Measures (including Water, Transport, Education, Police and Social Work) and take-up in full of £10,612,000 capital End-Year Flexibility entitlement as announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 15 July ( Official Report, Columns 698-702.
The non-voted cash limit SO/LA2, which covers housing capital expenditure by local authorities and capital expenditure by New Towns, is to be increased by £23,704,000 from £267,981,000 to £291,685,000. This increase reflects allocation of £20,000,000 additional provision in the measures announced in November and take-up of £13,065,000 End- Year Flexibility as announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 15 July 1992. It also takes account of the transfer of £9,361,000 to Vote 5 (see 3. Above). The change to the overall Scottish Office running costs limit will be a decrease of £774,000 from £287, 346,000 to £286,572,000.
The increases represented by these changes will be charged to the Reserve or offset elsewhere and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.
Housing Benefit
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list those local authorities which operate a total disregard scheme in relation to housing benefit for (a) both war disablement and war widows' pensions (b) war disablement pensions only, (c) war widows' pensions only, and (d) those authorities which do not operate a total disregard scheme for either category ; if he will publish a table showing the annual cost of running each scheme to the local authority expressed (i) in actual terms and (ii) as a per capita cost to the population in that area ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Burt : I have been asked to reply.
A £10 statutory disregard of war widows' and war disablement pensions applies across the income-related benefits. Local authorities also have a discretionary power to enhance this disregard at their own expense in calculating entitlement to housing benefit and community charge benefit. We have no plans to change these arrangements.
The data requested on these local schemes has been compiled from the latest information from local authorities for the financial year 1990-91, together with the latest population figures from the 1991 census, and is listed in the tables. It is not possible to break down the annual cost between war disablement and war widows' pensions.
Local authorities which operate a total disregard scheme
in housing benefit for both war disablement
and war widows' pensions
Local authority |Cost of scheme |Annual per capita
|cost
|£ |£
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aberconwy |14,032 |0.26
Aberdeen |167,439 |0.82
Amber Valley |34,464 |0.31
Angus |37,555 |0.40
Annandale |23,217 |0.63
Arfon |2,050 |0.04
Argyll-Bute |<1>- |-
Arun |1,726 |0.01
Ashfield |31,472 |0.29
Ashford |43,073 |0.47
Badenoch |2,489 |0.23
Banff and Buchan |39,915 |0.47
Basingstoke |50,838 |0.36
Bassetlaw |22,254 |0.22
Bearsden and Milngavie |2,989 |0.07
Berwickshire |10,022 |0.52
Birmingham |58,184 |0.06
Blackpool |13,811 |0.10
Blaenau Gwent |2,646 |0.04
Boston |24,805 |0.47
Bracknell |31,060 |0.33
Bradford |48,316 |0.11
Braintree |86,454 |0.75
Brent |23,596 |0.10
Brentwood |<1>- |-
Brighton |37,864 |0.28
Broxbourne |24,148 |0.30
Broxtowe |34,290 |0.33
Burnley |10,962 |0.12
Caithness |<1>- |-
Calderdale |<1>- |-
Cannock Chase |4,820 |0.06
Cardiff |<1>- |-
Carlisle |71,481 |0.72
Carrick |9,409 |0.11
Castle Point |27,578 |0.33
Ceredigion |15,262 |<2>-
Charnwood |4,055 |0.03
Chelmsford |63,085 |0.42
Cheltenham |7,081 |0.08
Cherwell |33,739 |0.29
Chesterfield |9,853 |0.10
Chiltern |18,686 |0.21
Christchurch |20,591 |0.51
Clackmannan |23,540 |0.49
Clydebank |73,548 |1.61
Clydesdale |21,144 |0.37
Colwyn |<1>- |-
Congleton |20,747 |0.25
Copeland |37,560 |0.53
Cotswold |38,886 |0.53
Coventry |45,550 |0.16
Craven |14,674 |0.30
Crewe & Nantwich |22,495 |0.22
Cumbernauld (DC) |<1>- |-
Cumbernauld (Kils) |8,404 |0.13
Cumnock & Doon |13,939 |0.33
Cunninghame |83,004 |0.61
Dacorum |2,674 |0.02
Dartford |34,045 |0.43
Daventry |10,757 |0.17
Delyn |4,152 |0.06
Dumbarton |30,432 |0.39
Dundee |117,578 |0.71
Dunfermline |56,890 |0.45
Dwyfor |2,764 |0.10
Ealing |84,383 |0.32
East Cambridgeshire |1,267 |0.02
East Devon |24,602 |0.21
East Dorset (Wimborne) |20,219 |0.26
East Hertfordshire |25,295 |0.22
East Kilbride |3,653 |0.04
East Kilbride (DC) |32,748 |<3>-
Eastleigh |35,494 |0.34
East Lothian |50,649 |0.60
Eastwood |7,383 |0.12
East Yorkshire |38,066 |0.45
Eden |1,509 |0.03
Edinburgh |229,339 |0.55
Ellesmere Port |24,157 |0.31
Elmbridge |65,740 |0.60
Epping Forest |3,013 |0.03
Epsom and Ewell |16,555 |0.25
Erewash |3,683 |0.04
Etterick and Lauderdale |17,787 |0.52
Falkirk |72,854 |0.52
Forest Heath |21,871 |0.38
Forest of Dean |5,285 |0.07
Gedling |11,099 |0.10
Gillingham |8,605 |0.09
Glanford |<1>- |-
Glasgow |777,683 |1.17
Glenrothes |31,516 |<3>-
Gloucester |4,995 |0.05
Glyndwr |1,246 |0.03
Gordon |15,444 |0.20
Gosport |54,349 |0.75
Great Yarmouth |9,432 |0.11
Guildford |9,672 |0.08
Hackney |127,507 |0.78
Halton |<1>- |-
Hamilton |405,806 |3.86
Hammersmith |92,884 |0.68
Harborough |5,950 |0.09
Harlow |<1>- |-
Harrow |45,752 |0.24
Hart |20,344 |0.26
Hartlepool |25,916 |0.29
Hereford |18,847 |0.38
Hertsmere |27,998 |0.33
High Peak |4,087 |0.05
Hillingdon |78,211 |0.35
Hinckley & Bosworth |16,744 |0.18
Horsham |3,496 |0.03
Hounslow |55,386 |0.29
Hove |47,913 |0.58
Huntingdon |6,043 |0.04
Hyndburn |<1>- |-
Inverclyde |<1>- |-
Inverness |<1>- |-
Ipswich |51,152 |0.44
Irvine (DC) |10,124 |<3>-
Isles of Scilly |<1>- |-
Islington |17,349 |0.11
Islwyn |16,482 |0.25
Kennet |637 |0.01
Kilmarnock |41,484 |0.52
Kincardine and Deeside |17,853 |0.33
Kingswood |4,748 |0.05
Kirklees |210,785 |0.57
Kyle and Carrick |5,552 |0.05
Lambeth <1>- |-
Lancaster |35,705 |0.28
Langbaurgh |12,890 |0.09
Leicester |<1>- |-
Lewes |15,030 |0.18
Lewisham |138,665 |0.64
Lichfield |<1>- |-
Liverpool |223,418 |0.50
Livingston (DC) |26,245 |<3>-
Llanelli |4,166 |0.06
Lochaber |6,392 |0.33
Luton |6,907 |0.04
Macclesfield |50,084 |0.34
Maidstone |59,698 |0.45
Maldon |29,749 |0.59
Mansfield |3,039 |0.03
Medina |68,524 |0.98
Melton |3,480 |0.08
Mendip |41,437 |0.43
Merton |144,047 |0.89
Mid Bedfordshire |22,442 |0.21
Midlothian |34,265 |0.43
Mid Suffolk |15,096 |0.20
Mid Sussex |17,225 |0.15
Milton Keynes |7,584 |0.04
Mole Valley |50,617 |0.65
Monklands |<1>- |-
Montgomery |5,927 |<2>-
Moray |29,847 |0.36
Motherwell |76,749 |0.54
Nairn |8,818 |0.83
Neath |5,269 |0.08
Newark |15,519 |0.15
Newbury |32,362 |0.24
Newcastle under Lyme |27,219 |0.23
Newham |123,361 |0.62
Nithsdale |25,720 |0.45
Northampton |86,150 |0.48
Northavon |17,234 |0.13
North Bedfordshire |<1>- |-
North Cornwall |7,713 |0.10
North East Derby |12,530 |0.13
North East Fife |24,608 |0.37
North Hertfordshire |45,744 |0.42
North Kesteven |4,070 |0.05
North Shropshire |11,875 |0.23
North Tyneside |137,017 |0.73
North Warwickshire |<1>- |-
North West Leicestershire |2,293 |0.03
North Wiltshire |40,928 |0.37
Nottingham |219,914 |0.84
Nuneaton |32,948 |0.29
Oadby and Wigston |13,400 |0.26
Ogwr |47,574 |0.36
Orkney |4,035 |0.21
Perth and Kinross |48,030 |0.39
Peterborough |14,424 |0.10
Plymouth |43,840 |0.18
Purbeck |5,511 |0.13
Radnor |1,268 |<2>-
Redbridge |61,067 |0.28
Redditch |27,011 |0.35
Reigate and Banstead |72,856 |0.63
Renfrew |150,442 |0.76
Rhuddlan |30,230 |0.56
Richmondshire |3,035 |0.07
Richmond upon Thames |41,868 |0.27
Rochester on Medway |45,906 |0.32
Rochford |12,278 |0.17
Ross and Cromarty |24,776 |0.50
Rossendale |35,112 |0.55
Rother |14,491 |0.18
Roxborough |21,136 |0.60
Rugby |2,917 |0.04
Runnymede |37,896 |0.53
Rushcliffe |4,751 |0.05
Rushmoor |22,402 |0.28
Rutland |9,360 |0.29
Ryedale |11,873 |0.13
Salford |247,222 |1.13
Sandwell |181,950 |0.65
Scottish Homes |243,237 |<3>-
Scunthorpe |<1>- |-
Sedgefield |2,778 |0.03
Sefton |146,667 |0.52
Selby |26,854 |0.30
Sevenoaks |22,104 |0.21
Shetland |6,272 |0.28
Skye & Lochalsh |1,570 |0.13
Slough |45,271 |0.46
Solihull |69,864 |0.36
South Bedfordshire |7,319 |0.07
South Buckinghamshire |5,138 |0.09
South Cambridgeshire |37,222 |0.32
South Derbyshire |579 |0.01
Southend on Sea |90,120 |0.59
South Herefordshire |6,091 |0.12
South Holland |26,422 |0.40
South Lakeland |26,107 |0.26
South Northamptonshire |12,582 |0.18
South Oxfordshire |5,449 |0.04
South Ribble |34,609 |0.35
South Shropshire |4,686 |0.12
South Staffordshire |21,041 |0.20
South Tyneside |23,794 |0.16
Southwark |14,858 |0.08
South Wight |39,074 |0.69
Spelthorne |53,744 |0.62
Staffs Moorlands |15,164 |0.16
St. Albans |24,326 |0.20
Stewartry |9,888 |0.42
St. Helens |124,627 |0.71
Stirling |43,968 |0.56
Stockport |<1>- |-
Stoke on Trent |9,638 |0.04
Stratford on Avon |26,650 |0.26
Strathkelvin |21,909 |0.26
Stroud |26,411 |0.24
Suffolk Coastal |1,366 |0.01
Surrey Heath |28,227 |0.36
Sutherland |4,065 |0.31
Sutton |26,980 |0.16
Swale |29,935 |0.26
Tameside |151,136 |0.71
Tamworth |49,129 |0.71
Tandridge |22,896 |0.31
Tendring |52,723 |0.42
Test Valley |40,041 |0.40
Tewkesbury |20,229 |0.23
Thanet |<1>- |-
The Wrekin |<1>- |-
Three Rivers |30,366 |0.41
Tower Hamlets |3,248 |0.02
Trafford |42,529 |0.21
Tweeddale |3,555 |0.23
Vale of White Horse |21,579 |0.20
Wakefield |7,297 |0.02
Walsall |15,306 |0.06
Waltham Forest |104,801 |0.52
Wandsworth |40,348 |0.17
Wansbeck |4,147 |0.07
Wansdyke |<1>- |-
Watford |6,896 |0.10
Waverley |<1>- |-
Welwyn Hatfield |32,306 |0.35
Western Isles |26,518 |0.90
West Lothian |36,140 |0.25
Westminster |40,190 |0.22
West Oxfordshire |10,629 |0.12
West Wiltshire |50,309 |0.48
Wigtown |<1>- |-
Winchester |27,308 |0.29
Windsor and Maidenhead |<1>- |-
Wirral |157,414 |0.49
Working |40,761 |0.49
Workingham |5,237 |0.04
Wolverhampton |124,899 |0.52
Woodspring |4,213 |0.02
Worthing |18,470 |0.20
Wycombe |75,965 |0.49
Local authorities which operate a total disregard scheme in housing
benefit for war disablement pension only
Local Authorities |Cost of scheme |Annual per capita
|cost
|£ |£
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bath |14,968 |0.19
Blaby |2,706 |0.03
Blackburn |68,617 |0.52
Bolton |60,587 |0.24
Bromley |53,819 |0.19
Bury |37,167 |0.22
Cambridge |26,972 |0.27
Corby |<1>- |-
Doncaster |39,852 |0.14
Dudley |93,332 |0.31
East Staffordshire |15,267 |0.16
Exeter |22,599 |0.22
Grimsby |253 |0.00
Hambleton |10,470 |0.13
Havering |5,588 |0.02
Middlesbrough |13,641 |0.10
Newport |25,354 |0.20
Oldham |27,343 |0.13
Ribble Valley |2,647 |0.05
Southampton |8,017 |0.04
South Somerset |54,011 |0.39
Stevenage |19,761 |0.27
Stockton on Tees |6,386 |0.04
Torbay |31,912 |0.26
Torfaen |16,341 |0.19
Tunbridge Wells |<1>- |-
Vale Royal |31,663 |0.29
York |1,429 |0.01
Local authorities which operate a total disregard scheme
in housing benefit for war widow's pension only
Local authority |Cost of scheme |Annual per capita
|cost
|(£) |(£)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Castle Morpeth |<1>- |-
Chester |14,267 |0.12
Kirkcaldy |108,432 |1.62
Monmouth |20,455 |0.27
Thurrock |<1>- |-
<1> Denotes details of cost of scheme not provided by local authority.
<2> Denotes per capita cost calculation not possible because Ceredigion,
Radnor and Montgomery include some areas where housing benefit is
administered by the Development Board for Rural Wales.
<3> Denotes per capita cost calculation not possible because 1991
census figures are not yet available.
Local authorities which do not operate a total disregard scheme in housing benefit for either war disablement or war widows' pensions Adur
Allerdale
Alnwick
Alyn and Deeside
Aylesbury Vale
Babergh
Barking
Barnet
Barnsley
Barrow in Furness
Basildon
Basildon (DC)
Berwick upon Tweed
Beverley
Bexley
Blythe Valley
Bolsover
Boothferry
Bournemouth
Breckland
Brecknock
Bridgnorth
Bristol
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BroadlandBromsgrove
Camden
Canterbury
Caradon
Carmarthen
Chester le Street
Chichester
Chorley
City of London
Cleethorpes
Colchester
Corby New Town
Crawley
Croydon
Cynon Valley
Darlington
Derby
Derbyshire Dales
Derwentside
Dinefwr
Dover
Durham
Easington
Eastbourne
East Hampshire
East Lindsey
East Northampton
Enfield
Fareham
Fenland
Fylde
Gateshead
Gravesham
Greenwich
Haringey
Harrogate
Hastings
Havant
Holderness
Kensington and Chelsea
Kerrier
Kettering
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Thames
Knowsley
Leeds
Leominster
Lincoln
Lliw Valley
Malvern Hills
Manchester
Meirionnydd
Merthyr Tydfil
Mid Devon
Newcastle upon Tyne
New Forest
North Devon
North Dorset
North Norfolk
Norwich
Oswestry
Oxford
Pendle
Penwith
Poole
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