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European Bodies (Costs)

Mr. John Marshall: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on increases in the costs of (a) the European Union Commission, (b) the EU Country Auditors and (c) the European Court, since 1990; and what are their estimated costs in 1996. [26317]

Mr. Heathcoat-Amory: I have been asked to reply.

I presume my hon. Friend refers to the cost of the European Commission, the European Court of Auditors and the European Court of Justice. The information is provided in the table:

Costs of the European Commission, European Court of Auditors and the European Court of Justice

	1990 (ecu)	1996 (ecu)	Average annual growth (Per cent.)
European Commission	1,505.0	2,696.7	10.3
European Court of Auditors	53.4	56.2	3.1
European Court of Justice	66.9	169.7	17.7

Notes:

1. The figures for 1990 are outturn figures and have been taken from the 1990 European Court of Auditors report. The figures for 1996 are taken from the adopted European Community Budget.

2. The calculation of average annual growth has been based on the outturn for 1990-94 as shown in the relevant European Court of Auditors reports, and planned expenditure for 1995 and 1996 taken from the adopted European Community Budgets for those years.

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Mr. Marshall: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the estimated cost of the Agriculture Directorate General for 1996; and what is the cost of the Agriculture Commissioner's cabinet. [26316]

Mr. Heathcote-Amory: I have been asked to reply.

I am afraid the 1996 EC budget does not show the information requested. I suggest that my hon. Friend contacts the European Commission direct.

SCOTLAND

Read Codes

Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what part-funding contribution his Department has made towards the development of Read codes for computerised health and hospital information systems.[27064]

Lord James Douglas Hamilton: The Scottish Office department of health has not made any contribution towards the funding of the development of Read codes.

Historic Scotland (Performance Targets)

Mr. Whittingdale: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the key performance targets he has set Historic Scotland for 1996-97. [27541]

Mr. Michael Forsyth: I have set Historic Scotland the following key performance targets for 1996-97:

	Target
Protecting Scotland's Built Heritage
Number of monuments scheduled	370
Weighted number of listed building resurvey units	176
Percentage of scheduled monument consent cases resolved within 12 weeks	81 per cent.
Percentage of listed building consent cases resolved within 28 days	97 per cent.
Number of historic building repair projects newly assisted by grant	145
Total value of grand-assisted repairs in progress	£33.5 million
Backlog of conservation of monuments in care	reduce
Promoting and Presenting the Built Heritage
Number of visitors to monuments in care	2.4 million
HS market share compared to major paid heritage attractions in Scotland	47 per cent.
Percentage of satisfied visitors (based on surveys)	95 per cent.
Average spend per visitor	£1.02
Agency management
Percentage efficiency gains/savings on all non-grant expenditure	1.5 per cent.
Total agency income	£9.9 million

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Further Education

Mr Whittingdale: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he will publish his report on the discharge of his duties for further education in Scotland as required under section 1 of the Further and Higher Education Scotland (Act) 1972; and if he will make a statement.[27542]

Mr. Raymond S. Robertson: My right hon Friend's report on further education in Scotland in 1995 has been published today and has been laid before both Houses of Parliament. Copies are available in the Library of the House.

The report, entitled "Further Education in Scotland 1995: Report by the Secretary of State for Scotland" shows that further education colleges have continued to raise standards and that progress has been made in the use of performance indicators as part of their quality assurance arrangements. They continue to make an impressive contribution to the training needs of individuals and of employers and are to be congratulated on the 6 per cent. increase in student activity and 4 per cent. efficiency gains which they achieved in the 1994-95 academic year.

Copyright

Mr. Maclennan: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what progress his Department has made towards obtaining a photocopying licence from the copyright licensing agency to ensure compliance with copyright law. [26711]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 25 April 1996]: The Department is discussing detailed arrangements with the copyright licensing agency to determine what, if any, need it has for a licence to ensure compliance with copyright law.

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

Private Finance Initiative

Ms Janet Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State

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for Education and Employment if she will list the revenue spending estimated by her Department in connection with the private finance initiative for (a) 1995-96, (b) 1996-97 and (c) 1997-98. [26626]

Mr. Robin Squire: The estimated recurrent spending by this Department, including the Employment Service--but not including independent education institutions or local authorities--in connection with projects undertaken through the private finance initiative cannot, yet, be accurately calculated for 1996-97 and 1997-98. None was paid in 1995-96. As the hon. Member will surmise from the answer to her question of 19 April, this Department estimates that a number of projects will come forward over the next few years. I also refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Betts) on 6 December, Official Report, column 311.

Local Education Authorities

Mr. Pawsey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what evidence she has indicating whether some local authorities are now delegating a smaller proportion of their budgets to schools in the primary, secondary or special school sectors when compared with 1993. [26790]

Mr. Robin Squire: I will write to my hon. Friend when the local management of schools budget statements produced by local education authorities for 1996-97 have been analysed by the Department.

Mr. Congdon: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will show for each English local education authority (i) the total number of pupils in each authority's (a) primary and (b) secondary schools, (ii) the total number of pupils and percentage at (1) primary and (2) secondary level who are educated outside their home local education authority, (iii) the total number and percentage of pupils in each authority at (x) primary and (y) secondary level who come from another local education authority and (iv) the political control of each local education authority. [26789]

Mr. Robin Squire: The latest available information is shown in the following table:

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Pupils of Primary and Secondary school age whose education is provided by Local Education Authorities by LEA of provision LEA of residence and age, for each (LEA in England(2)

March 1996		January 1994
		Provision
	Political control of authority(3)	All Pupils			Pupils resident in other LEAs
		Number			Number			Percentage
		5-10	11-15	16+	5--10	11-15	16+	5-10	11-15	16+
Corporation of London	Independent	169	8	0	161	4	0	95.3	50.0	0.0
Camden	Labour	8,628	8,954	1,931	943	4,453	1,205	10.9	49.7	62.4
Greenwich	Labour	16,734	12,891	1,598	994	2,292	279	5.9	17.8	17.5
Hackney	Labour	13,277	7,468	444	929	1,075	127	7.0	14.4	28.6
Hammersmith	Labour	7,254	5,766	530	627	2,702	331	8.6	46.9	62.5
Islington	Labour	12,131	7,053	424	1,710	2,371	177	14.1	33.6	41.7
Kensington and Chelsea	Conservative	5,142	2,802	478	1,323	1,562	298	25.7	55.7	62.3
Lambeth	No overall control	15,309	7,212	167	1,137	1,226	62	7.4	17.0	37.1
Lewisham	Labour	16,492	10,117	1,084	1,078	2,016	207	6.5	19.9	19.1
Southwark	Labour	17,014	9,241	159	1,722	2,544	86	10.1	27.5	54..1
Tower Hamlets	Labour	16,808	11,393	943	321	785	99	1.9	6.9	10.5
Wandsworth	Conservative	13,089	8,438	1,206	1,391	2,550	325	10.6	30.2	26.9
Westminster	Conservative	7,362	6,393	1,158	1,719	3,670	695	23.3	57.4	60.0
Barking	Labour	12,107	8,901	977	848	969	126	7.0	10.9	12.9
Barnet	No overall control	18,859	16,148	2,981	1,535	3,887	739	8.1	24.1	24.8
Bexley	Labour (minority)	16,254	12,.887	1,884	610	1,474	181	3.8	11.4	9.6
Brent	No overall control	17,147	10,878	2,092	1,167	1,162	246	6.8	10.7	11.8
Bromley	Conservative	18,928	14,928	2,660	1,172	2,006	243	6.2	13.4	9.1
Croydon	Labour	21,992	14,836	549	1,127	1,470	144	5.1	9.9	26.2
Ealing	Labour	19,304	12,507	1,400	1,022	824	123	5.3	6.6	8.8
Enfield	Labour	18,943	15,619	2,635	746	2,133	367	3.9	13.7	13.9
Haringey	Labour	14,836	8,324	1,160	992	1,305	122	6.7	15.7	10.5
Harrow	No overall control	14,045	10,478	69	1,131	1,384	6	8.1	13.2	8.7
Havering	Labour (minority)	16,757	14,122	1,010	401	1,127	245	2.4	8.0	24.3
Hillingdon	Labour	16,501	12,471	1,950	412	840	192	2.5	6.7	9.8
Hounslow	Labour	14,711	12,720	2,088	750	3,016	420	5.1	23.7	20.1
Kingston upon Thames	Liberal Democrat	8,423	6,714	1,290	509	1,498	294	6.0	22.3	22.8
Merton	Labour	10,718	7,530	681	966	1,338	189	9.0	17.8	27.8
Newham	Labour	20,826	13,839	415	283	511	58	1.4	3.7	14.0
Redbridge	No overall control	16,569	12,882	2,805	1,059	1,340	330	6.4	10.4	11.8
Richmond upon Thames	Liberal Democrat	8,901	7,711	23	1,023	3,120	6	11.5	40.5	26.1
Sutton	Liberal Democrat	11,259	9,833	1,776	305	1,921	467	2.7	19.5	26.3
Waltham Forest	Labour (minority)	16,216	11,564	309	416	485	29	2.6	4.2	9.4
Birmingham	Labour	86,199	60,665	5,954	1,102	1,296	249	1.3	2.1	4.2
Coventry	Labour	23,960	17,262	2,293	217	400	62	0.9	2.3	2.7
Dudley	Labour	23,033	18,234	321	667	1,173	115	2.9	6.4	35.8
Sandwell	Labour	23,978	17,969	964	853	1,425	125	3.6	7.9	13.0
Solihull	Conservative/ Independent	15,667	13,139	554	1,195	2,258	76	7.6	17.2	13.7
Walsall	No overall control	21,515	17,399	2,468	391	1,513	247	1.8	8.7	10.0
Wolverhampton	Labour	19,474	14,410	1,937	477	547	97	2.4	3.8	5.0
Knowsley	Labour	14,095	8,996	484	852	569	45	6.0	6.3	9.3
Liverpool	Labour	39,712	27,780	3,949	1,151	1,265	216	2.9	4.6	5.5
St. Helens	Labour	13,916	11,058	1,032	435	894	101	3.1	8.1	9.8
Bolton	Labour	21,534	16,220	1,133	307	813	106	1.4	5.0	9.4
Bury	Labour	13,562	10,601	38	493	862	0	3.6	8.1	0.0
Manchester	Labour	36,234	22,099	441	1,530	1,100	35	4.2	5.0	7.9
Oldham	Labour	19,211	15,921	780	545	2,082	142	2.8	13.1	18.2
Rochdale	Conservative/Liberal Democrat	17,679	12,524	783	201	298	37	1.1	2.4	4.7
Salford	Labour	17,773	11,876	32	1,030	430	0	5.8	3.6	0.0
Stockport	Liberal Democrat (minority)	21,157	15,672	397	527	502	53	2.5	3.2	13.4
Tameside	Labour	18,099	13,600	83	468	842	2	2.6	6.2	2.4
Trafford	No overall control	15,845	12,572	1,248	312	1,207	88	2.0	9.6	7.1
Wigan	Labour	24,218	19,595	482	457	1,487	38	1.9	7.6	7.9
Barnsley	Labour	16,843	12,683	182	101	221	12	0.6	1.7	6.6
Doncastor	Labour	24,052	18,113	2,471	110	218	51	0.5	1.2	2.1
Rotherham	Labour	20,167	17,149	1,555	224	1,278	132	1.1	7.5	8.5
Sheffield	Labour	35,472	26,096	1,507	140	152	40	0.4	0.6	2.7
Bradford	Labour	41,715	30,124	4,465	203	238	73	0.5	0.8	1.6
Calderdale	Labour	15,457	11,866	1,674	327	437	61	2.1	3.7	3.6
Kirklees	Labour	30,179	22,651	1,648	252	315	49	0.8	1.4	3.0
Leeds	Labour	52,294	39,372	4,901	411	1,017	201	0.8	2.6	4.1
Wakefield	Labour	24,608	18,454	1,102	168	528	86	0.7	2.9	7.8
Gateshead	Labour	14,346	10,787	1,247	193	407	41	1.3	3.8	3.3
Newcastle upon Tyne	Labour	18,931	14,091	1,721	275	848	169	1.5	6.0	9.8
North Tyneside	Labour	14,480	11,076	1,101	482	291	29	3.3	2.6	2.6
South Tyneside	Labour	12,363	9,598	226	63	330	43	0.5	3.4	19.0
Sunderland	Labour	24,088	19,097	823	174	436	116	0.7	2.3	14.1
Isles of Scilly	Independent	149	135	0	1	0	0	0.7	0.0	0.0
Avon(4)	No overall control	66,251	49,416	6,458	272	716	94	0.4	1.4	1.5
Bedfordshire	No overall control	43,353	32,984	4,003	666	679	135	1.5	2.1	3.4
Berkshire	Labour/Lib.Dem. /Independent	54,526	42,123	6,652	659	1,463	433	1.2	3.5	6.5
Buckinghamshire	Conservative	47,936	38,070	7,416	809	991	284	1.7	2.6	3.8
Cambridgeshire	Labour/Liberal Democrat	49,412	37,823	3,835	439	372	47	0.9	1.0	1.2
Cheshire	Conservative/Liberal Democrat	73,291	58,810	6,886	569	2,259	341	0.8	3.8	5.0
Cleveland(5)	Labour	48,708	36,847	686	121	259	22	0.2	0.7	3.2
Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	33,784	27,117	2,267	49	242	32	0.1	0.9	1.4
Cumbria	Labour (minority)	34,880	28,059	3,466	78	326	111	0.2	1.2	3.2
Derbyshire	Labour	68,438	53,656	4,992	580	600	94	0.8	1.1	1.9
Devon	Liberal Democrat (minority)	70,030	54,831	6,477	174	504	93	0.2	0.9	1.4
Dorset	Liberal Democrat	41,553	34,683	4,723	343	1,298	331	0.8	3.7	7.0
Durham	Labour	44,904	35,708	2,789	134	133	49	0.3	0.4	1.8
East Sussex	Labour/Liberal Democrat	43,568	32,676	2,732	288	707	120	0.7	2.2	4.4
Essex	Labour/Liberal Democrat	110,044	89,399	8,633	395	1,021	181	0.4	1.1	2.1
Gloucestershire	No overall control	37,530	30,262	4,087	262	837	111	0.7	2.8	2.7
Hampshire	Lib.Dem/Labour/ Independent	112,859	84,996	1,425	731	1,128	112	0.6	1.3	7.9
Hereford and Worcester	Labour/Liberal Democrat	48,319	39,159	4,097	557	1,196	145	1.2	3.1	3.5
Hertfordshire	No overall control	70,804	58,063	10,259	1,462	3,260	758	2.1	5.6	7.4
Humberside(6)	Labour	68,697	63,305	3,604	195	1,183	64	0.3	2.2	1.8
Isle of Wight	Liberal Democrat	8,515	6,779	1,123	0	1	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kent	No overall control	110,701	89,348	14,079	458	1,212	281	0.4	1.4	2.0
Lancashire	Labour	109,120	82,431	4,151	376	835	79	0.3	1.0	1.9
Leicestershire	No overall control	68,540	53,395	6,243	226	486	35	0.3	0.9	0.6
Lincolnshire	Labour/Liberal Democrat	42,080	34,861	4,200	257	929	143	0.6	2.7	3.4
Norfolk	Labour (minority)	49,887	41,295	4,765	127	542	109	0.3	1.3	2.3
North Yorkshire(7)	No overall control	48,620	40,067	4,582	293	1,888	338	0.6	4.7	7.4
Northamptonshire	Labour	45,803	35,908	5,256	267	749	143	0.6	2.1	2.7
Northumberland	Labour	22,661	19,259	3,202	369	553	107	1.6	2.9	3.3
Nottinghamshire	Labour	75,259	57,288	6,137	305	730	110	0.4	1.3	1.8
Oxfordshire	No overall control	38,310	29,716	4,208	299	1,680	230	0.8	5.7	5.5
Shropshire	Labour/Liberal Democrat	30,637	24,175	1,450	200	582	59	0.7	2.4	4.1
Somerset	Liberal/Democrat	32,639	24,811	1,613	276	242	48	0.8	1.0	3.0
Staffordshire	Labour	79,671	61,819	5,829	701	1,266	171	0.9	2.0	2.9
Suffolk	Labour/Liberal Democrat	44,737	35,565	5,471	561	728	140	1.3	2.0	2.6
Surrey	Conservative/Liberal Democrat	60,363	45,849	4,885	1,824	2,221	202	3.0	4.8	4.1
Warwickshire	Labour (minority)	35,078	26,972	3,146	997	915	174	2.8	3.4	5.5
West Sussex	Liberal Democrat (minority)	45,961	38,568	4,103	540	1,450	181	1.2	3.8	4.4
Wiltshire	No overall control	43,105	31,569	3,443	323	472	70	0.7	1.5	2.0
England		3,502,657	2,686,084	276,885	64,532	124,667	17,717	1.8	4.6	6.4

(2) For LEAs in existence immediately prior to Local Government Reorganisation on 1 April 1996

(3) Political control immediately prior to Local Government Reorganisation on 1 April 1996

(4) Avon has now become

Bath and North East Somerset (No overall control)

Bristol City Council (Labour)

North West Somerset (Liberal Democrat minority)

South Gloucestershire Council (No overall control)

(5) Cleveland has now become

Hartlepool Borough Council (Labour)

Middlesbrough (Labour)

Redcar and Cleveland (Labour)

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council (Labour)

(6) Humberside has now become

Kingston-upon-Hull City Council (Labour)

East Riding Authority (No overall control)

North East Lincolnshire Authority (Labour)

North Lincolnshire Council (Labour)

(7) North Yorkshire has now become

York City Council (Labour)

North Yorkshire (No overall control).

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March 1996		January 1994
		Residence
	Political control of authority(8)	All pupils			Pupils whose education is provided by other LEAs
		Number			Number			Percentage
		5-10	11-15	16+	5-10	11-15	16+	5-10	11-15	16+
Corporation of London	Independent	28	25	5	20	21	5	71.4	84.0	100
Camden	Labour	8,978	6,353	1,000	1,293	1,852	274	14.4	29.2	27.4
Greenwich	Labour	16,816	12,157	1,497	1,076	1,558	178	6.4	12.8	11.9
Hackney	Labour	13,935	9,785	679	1,587	3,392	362	11.4	34.7	53.3
Hammersmith	Labour	7,445	5,010	449	818	1,946	250	11.0	38.8	55.7
Islington	Labour	11,338	7,569	721	917	2,887	474	8.1	38.1	65.7
Kensington and Chelsea	Conservative	4,282	2,882	347	463	1,642	167	10.8	57.0	48.1
Lambeth	No overall control	17,059	11,251	573	2,887	5,265	468	16.9	46.8	81.7
Lewisham	Labour	17,270	10,980	1,187	1,856	2,879	310	10.7	26.2	26.1
Southwark	Labour	16,339	9,286	350	1,047	2,589	277	6.4	27.9	79.1
Tower Hamlets	Labour	17,001	11,737	947	514	1,129	103	3.0	9.6	10.9
Wandsworth	Conservative	12,568	8,413	1,118	870	2,525	237	6.9	30.0	21.2
Westminster	Conservative	6,369	4,523	706	726	1,800	243	11.4	39.8	34.4
Barking	Labour	11,682	8,529	972	423	597	121	3.6	7.0	12.4
Barnet	No overall control	18,391	13,655	2,583	1,067	1,394	341	5.8	10.2	13.2
Bexley	Labour (minority)	16,328	12,665	1,866	684	1,252	163	4.2	9.9	8.7
Brent	No overall control	18,187	13,872	2,472	2,207	4,156	626	12.1	30.0	25.3
Bromley	Conservative	18,321	13,764	2,541	565	842	124	3.1	6.1	4.9
Croydon	Labour	21,919	16,042	782	1,054	2,676	377	4.8	16.7	48.2
Ealing	Labour	19,337	14,401	1,633	1,055	2,718	356	5.5	18.9	21.8
Enfield	Labour	19,090	14,848	2,534	893	1,362	266	4.7	9.2	10.5
Haringey	Labour	14,830	9,798	1,580	986	2,779	542	6.6	28.4	34.3
Harrow	No overall control	13,775	10,558	574	861	1,464	511	6.3	13.9	89.0
Havering	Labour (minority)	16,683	13,810	868	327	815	103	2.0	5.9	11.9
Hillingdon	Labour	16,826	12,646	1,916	737	1,015	158	4.4	8.0	8.2
Hounslow	Labour	15,096	11,449	1,762	1,135	1,745	94	7.5	15.2	5.3
Kingston upon Thames	Liberal Democrat	8,299	6,081	1,074	385	865	78	4.6	14.2	7.3
Merton	Labour	10,601	7,392	706	849	1,200	214	8.0	16.2	30.3
Newham	Labour	21,130	14,385	531	587	1,057	174	2.8	7.3	32.8
Redbridge	No overall control	16,417	12,920	2,645	907	1,378	170	5.5	10.7	6.4
Richmond upon Thames	Liberal Democrat	8,135	5,481	163	257	890	146	3.2	16.2	89.6
Sutton	Liberal Democrat	11,851	8,990	1,425	897	1,078	116	7.6	12.0	8.1
Waltham Forest	Labour (minority)	16,442	12,113	513	642	1,034	233	3.9	8.5	45.4
Birmingham	Labour	87,001	63,326	5,916	1,904	3,957	211	2.2	6.2	3.6
Coventry	Labour	24,036	17,183	2,282	293	321	51	1.2	1.9	2.2
Dudley	Labour	22,788	17,963	343	422	902	137	1.9	5.0	39.9
Sandwell	Labour	23,761	17,727	982	636	1,183	143	2.7	6.7	14.6
Solihull	Conservative/Independent	14,870	11,319	534	398	438	56	2.7	3.9	10.5
Walsall	No overall control	21,580	16,555	2,318	456	669	97	2.1	4.0	4.2
Wolverhampton	Labour	19,517	14,933	1,988	520	1,070	148	2.7	7.2	7.4
Knowsley	Labour	14,527	10,534	710	1,284	2,107	271	8.8	20.0	38.2
Liverpool	Labour	39,395	27,770	3,848	834	1,255	115	2.1	4.5	3.0
St. Helens	Labour	13,698	11,225	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
Bolton	Labour	21,543	15,864	1,036	316	457	9	1.5	2.9	0.9
Bury	Labour	14,157	10,235	55	1,088	496	17	7.7	4.8	30.9
Manchester	Labour	36,177	24,363	493	1,473	3,364	87	4.1	13.8	17.6
Oldham	Labour	18,897	14,244	650	231	405	12	1.2	2.8	1.8
Rochdale	Conservative/Liberal Democrat	17,858	13,471	858	380	1,245	112	2.1	9.2	13.1
Salford	Labour	17,307	12,072	80	564	626	48	3.3	5.2	60.0
Stockport	Liberal Democrat (minority)	21,016	15,597	388	386	427	44	1.8	2.7	11.3
Tameside	Labour	18,059	13,263	117	428	505	36	2.4	3.8	30.8
Trafford	No overall control	15,954	12,313	1,300	421	948	140	2.6	7.7	10.8
Wigan	Labour	24,390	18,893	493	629	785	49	2.6	4.2	9.9
Barnsley	Labour	16,915	13,107	256	173	645	86	1.0	4.9	33.6
Doncaster	Labour	24,044	18,328	2,467	102	433	47	0.4	2.4	1.9
Rotherham	Labour	20,032	16,002	1,438	89	131	15	0.4	0.8	1.0
Sheffield	Labour	35,579	26,721	1,560	247	777	93	0.7	2.9	6.0
Bradford	Labour	42,034	31,652	4,758	522	1,766	366	1.2	5.6	7.7
Calderdale	Labour	15,208	11,694	1,669	78	265	56	0.5	2.3	3.4
Kirklees	Labour	30,254	22,996	1,678	327	660	79	1.1	2.9	4.7
Leeds	Labour	52,106	39,133	4,868	223	778	168	0.4	2.0	3.5
Wakefield	Labour	24,589	18,087	1,038	149	161	22	0.6	0.9	2.1
Gateshead	Labour	14,250	10,902	1,312	97	522	106	0.7	4.8	8.1
Newcastle upon Tyne	Labour	19,347	13,922	1,652	691	679	100	3.6	4.9	6.1
North Tyneside	Labour	14,183	11,398	1,169	185	613	97	1.3	5.4	8.3
South Tyneside	Labour	12,374	9,408	258	74	140	75	0.6	1.5	29.1
Sunderland	Labour	24,043	19,043	755	129	382	48	0.5	2.0	6.4
Isles of Scilly	Independent	148	135	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Avon(9)	No overall control	66,175	49,188	6,449	196	488	85	0.3	1.0	1.3
Bedfordshire	No overall control	43,134	33,031	4,016	447	726	148	1.0	2.2	3.7
Berkshire	Labour/Liberal Democrat/Independent	54,874	42,347	6,396	1,007	1,687	177	1.8	4.0	2.8
Buckinghamshire	Conservative	48,298	39,973	7,783	1,171	2,894	651	2.4	7.2	8.4
Cambridgeshire	Labour/Liberal Democrat	49,356	38,110	3,915	383	659	127	0.8	1.7	3.2
Cheshire	Conservative/Liberal Democrat	73,224	57,324	6,677	502	773	132	0.7	1.3	2.0
Cleveland(10)	Labour	48,649	36,715	674	62	127	10	0.1	0.3	1.5
Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	33,820	27,315	2,317	85	440	82	0.3	1.6	3.5
Cumbria	Labour (minority)	34,817	27,824	3,400	15	91	45	0.0	0.3	1.3
Derbyshire	Labour	68,346	54,256	5,090	488	1,200	192	0.7	2.2	3.8
Devon	Liberal Democrat (minority)	69,960	54,926	6,479	104	598	95	0.1	1.1	1.5
Dorset	Liberal Democrat	41,378	33,618	4,412	168	233	20	0.4	0.7	0.5
Durham	Labour	45,151	36,194	2,830	381	619	90	0.8	1.7	3.2
East Sussex	Labour/Liberal Democrat	43,487	33,144	2,877	207	1,175	265	0.5	3.5	9.2
Essex	Labour/Liberal Democrat	110,825	90,685	9,034	1,176	2,307	582	1.1	2.5	6.4
Gloucestershire	No overall control	37,482	29,777	4,057	214	352	81	0.6	1.2	2.0
Hampshire	Liberal Democrat/Labour/ Independent	113,044	85,551	1,665	916	1,683	352	0.8	2.0	21.1
Hereford and Worcester	Labour/Liberal Democrat	48,903	39,262	4,135	1,141	1,299	183	2.3	3.3	4.4
Hertfordshire	No overall control	69,952	55,604	9,716	610	801	215	0.9	1.4	2.2
Humberside(11)	Labour	68,599	52,867	3,608	97	745	68	0.1	1.4	1.9
Isle of Wight	Liberal Democrat	8,518	6,780	1,124	3	2	1	0.0	0.0	0.1
Kent	No overall control	110,551	89,127	13,965	308	991	167	0.3	1.1	1.2
Lancashire	Labour	109,348	83,010	4,332	604	1,414	260	0.6	1.7	6.0
Leicstershire	No overall control	68,689	53,379	6,286	375	470	78	0.5	0.9	1.2
Lincolnshire	Labour/Liberal Democrat	42,066	35,448	4,162	243	1,516	105	0.6	4.3	2.5
Norfolk	Labour (minority)	50,340	41,291	4,750	580	538	94	1.2	1.3	2.0
North Yorkshire(12)	No overall control	48,752	38,728	4,356	425	549	112	0.9	1.4	2.6
Northamptonshire	Labour	45,830	35,412	5,196	294	253	83	0.6	0.7	1.6
Northumberland	Labour	22,475	18,924	3,142	183	218	47	0.8	1.2	1.5
Nottignhamshire	Labour	75,319	57,245	6,131	365	687	104	0.5	1.2	1.7
Oxfordshire	No overall control	38,396	28,474	4,063	385	438	85	1.0	1.5	2.1
Shropshire	Labour/Liberal Democrat	30,677	23,972	1,471	240	379	80	0.8	1.6	5.4
Somerset	Liberal Democrat	32,755	25,364	1,682	392	795	117	1.2	3.1	7.0
Staffordshire	Labour	79,870	61,899	5,890	900	1,346	232	1.1	2.2	3.9
Suffolk	Labour/Liberal Democrat	44,437	35,253	5,435	261	416	104	0.6	1.2	1.9
Surrey	Conservative/Liberal Democrat	60,038	46,327	5,256	1,499	2,699	573	2.5	5.8	10.9
Warwickshire	Labour/(minority)	34,594	26,971	3,111	513	914	139	1.5	3.4	4.5
West Sussex	Liberal Democrat (minority)	45,867	37,670	4,003	446	552	81	1.0	1.5	2.0
Wiltshire	No overall control	43,145	32,111	3,526	363	1,014	153	0.8	3.2	4.3
England		3,502,712	2,686,098	276,903	64,587	124,681	17,735	1.8	4.6	6.4

(8) Political control immediately prior to Local Government Reorganisation on 1 April 1996.

(9) Avon has now become Bath and North East Somerset (No overall control).

Bristol City Council (Labour).

North West Somerset (Liberal Democrat minority).

South Gloucestershire Council (No overall control).

(10) Cleveland has now become Hartlepool Borough Council (Labour).

Middlesbrough (Labour).

Redcar and Cleveland (Labour).

Stockton on Tees Borough Council (Labour).

(11) Humberside has now become Kingston upon Hull City Council (Labour).

East Riding Authority (No overall control).

North East Lincolnshire Authority (Labour).

North Lincolnshire Council (Labour).

(12) North Yorkshire has now become York City Council (Labour).

North Yorkshire (No overall control).

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