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Social Housing

Mr. Mark Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will publish the allocations of capital housing expenditure for each year since 1992 for each London borough broken down into (a) repairs to local authority property, (b) repairs to regulated social landlord property, (c) new local authority build and (d) new regulated social landlord property. [40181]

Ms Keeble: The total allocations made by central Government to London boroughs to support their housing capital programmes in the years since 1992–93 are given in the table. Apart from the major repairs allowance (MRA), which was introduced in 2001–02 to provide resources to meet the on-going capital costs of maintaining the council housing stock, the resources are not generally allocated for particular types of expenditure. Details of the MRA allocations are available in the Library.

Housing capital allocations to London boroughs, 1992–93 to 2002–03£000

	1992–93	1993–94	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03
London total	539,255	529,146	422,485	410,295	391,598	326,985	390,237	399,263	613,482	730,034	736,701
Barking and Dagenham	7,675	6,832	5,470	5,558	6,091	6,294	9,741	9,550	15,720	20,053	20,738
Barnet	10,245	11,687	10,742	9,033	9,367	6,602	7,380	6,957	10,186	14,323	15,354
Bexley	5,250	4,767	3,626	3,659	3,157	3,525	4,456	3,113	2,665	2,494	2,607
Brent	20,543	16,379	14,875	16,656	16,286	14,159	14,656	13,877	21,309	25,514	24,322
Bromley	10,599	8,163	5,454	5,053	4,124	3,137	2,931	2,911	3,342	2,678	3,074
Camden	25,100	24,495	18,700	18,019	16,977	13,428	18,072	19,450	32,394	41,010	39,817
City of London	705	862	697	836	632	548	620	597	1,050	2,015	2,060
Croydon	20,395	23,105	19,088	17,542	16,975	11,362	9,088	10,082	13,900	17,001	17,802
Ealing	20,191	16,610	13,278	14,077	11,882	10,556	12,352	12,504	19,406	24,045	23,634
Enfield	19,480	15,989	11,620	10,630	9,876	8,009	8,336	7,801	10,368	14,563	15,890
Greenwich	15,973	22,136	18,706	18,615	16,770	13,430	14,393	16,952	28,142	31,907	31,652
Hackney	29,834	29,700	23,538	26,531	25,960	20,256	22,370	25,166	37,481	40,199	42,735
Hammersmith and Fulham	18,007	16,817	13,442	14,296	14,144	11,914	13,572	15,782	23,844	26,134	24,887
Haringey	27,894	23,661	19,749	18,404	15,777	13,928	15,887	15,809	28,199	32,667	34,258
Harrow	7,440	7,600	5,933	5,750	5,137	4,031	4,011	3,878	6,430	8,407	8,648
Havering	6,926	6,053	4,878	4,372	3,716	3,371	4,400	4,507	6,548	11,309	11,707
Hillingdon	14,445	16,924	13,042	12,439	11,383	7,854	7,464	7,798	11,481	14,127	13,923
Hounslow	15,825	13,919	11,819	11,628	10,717	7,757	8,252	7,685	11,098	15,531	15,673
Islington	27,161	24,166	20,970	19,651	16,629	15,084	18,862	18,150	28,557	38,297	40,237
Kensington and Chelsea	12,445	11,325	9,296	10,142	10,504	8,053	9,899	10,625	16,395	18,727	17,829
Kingston upon Thames	5,282	4,305	3,842	4,730	4,417	3,166	3,399	3,238	4,428	5,903	6,351
Lambeth	30,781	32,885	22,841	20,167	20,578	17,849	24,073	23,762	37,832	46,329	45,168
Lewisham	16,180	18,376	14,728	14,499	15,062	14,298	19,574	22,135	32,410	36,837	35,394
Merton	7,602	7,734	6,149	6,287	5,671	4,474	5,014	5,282	6,492	7,728	8,163
Newham	22,534	30,483	26,452	23,266	24,459	19,876	22,536	20,441	36,127	39,475	41,826
Redbridge	9,695	9,271	8,216	7,201	6,631	5,317	5,875	5,643	6,593	8,490	8,539
Richmond upon Thames	9,715	7,493	6,883	6,896	6,674	4,857	5,020	4,287	5,697	2,930	3,243
Southwark	24,596	25,370	17,484	18,859	19,414	20,129	27,752	29,229	45,946	52,921	54,739
Sutton	5,475	5,273	4,981	4,973	5,093	4,145	4,662	5,281	6,063	8,646	8,847
Tower Hamlets	20,674	21,623	16,620	15,083	14,056	13,611	21,211	21,907	34,594	37,844	39,244
Waltham Forest	20,365	14,134	9,726	9,995	9,949	8,749	11,557	12,933	22,418	24,834	23,666
Wandsworth	28,186	25,809	19,022	17,024	16,252	13,874	18,006	16,330	20,832	27,896	26,937
Westminster	22,038	25,196	20,620	18,424	17,238	13,342	14,816	15,601	25,535	29,197	27,737

Note:

Excluding funding for Estate Action, which is now part of the Single Regeneration Budget, and Arms Length Management Organisations.

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Local Government Finance

Mr. Mark Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what the value was of the Government's local government financial settlement for Cities of London and Westminster for each year from 1978–79 to 2001–02; and what the percentage increase was in each year. [40186]

Dr. Whitehead: Information on allocations to individual authorities in years before 1990 is no longer held centrally. The table gives figures for Standard Spending Assessments (SSA) for the two authorities from 1990–91 to 2001–02, and the percentage increase in each year after adjusting for changes in function or funding responsibilities:

	SSA £ million	Increase per cent.
City of London
1990–91	41.6	—
1991–92	42.7	2.5
1992–93	44.5	4.2
1993–94	48.3	10.2
1994–95	69.9	44.6
1995–96	65.9	-6.3
1996–97	62.1	-5.9
1997–98	63.0	1.2
1998–99	46.3	-26.6
1999–2000	48.2	4.2
2000–01	49.2	3.1
2001–02	50.8	3.4
2002–03	54.6	9.0
Westminster
1990–91	172.2	—
1991–92	210.3	22.1
1992–93	228.0	8.4
1993–94	221.4	1.3
1994–95	220.3	-1.6
1995–96	241.8	2.4
1996–97	241.3	-1.8
1997–98	249.4	2.0
1998–99	232.6	-8.0
1999–2000	244.8	5.2
2000–01	257.1	5.4
2001–02	275.3	7.2
2002–03	290.3	8.4

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Mr. Mark Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what the increase in (a) standard spending assessment and (b) council tax between the previous and current financial years was for the Cities of (i) London (ii) Westminster. [40179]

Dr. Whitehead: The table shows the increases in standard spending assessments (SSA) after adjusting for changes in function or funding responsibilities and own band D Council Tax between the previous (2000–01) and current (2001–02) financial years.

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Authority	2000–01 £	2001–02 £	Percentage increase
City of London
SSA	49.122(12)	50.779(12)	3.4
Own band D council	525	548	4.4
Tax	—	—	—
Westminster
SSA	256.827(12)	275.285(12)	7.2
Own band D council	235	259	10.2
Tax	—	—	—

⁽¹²⁾ £ million.

Rail Punctuality

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions for what reason (a) his Department and (b) the Strategic Rail Authority do not (i) hold centrally, (ii) collate, (iii) make publicly available and (iv) place in the Library the monthly figures on the punctuality of train operating companies as published at mainline stations. [40272]

Mr. Jamieson: The punctuality of the train operating companies and the rail network is measured using the Public Performance Measure (PPM). PPM data are published quarterly by the SRA, are placed in the Library and on the SRA website. The next publication on 18 March will include information on individual train operating companies. The information on train punctuality and reliability published by train operating companies at mainline stations is Passenger Charter data.

PPM replaced the Passenger's Charter as the means of measuring passenger train performance in June 2000 to provide better information on the actual performance of Britain's passenger rail. It combines figures for punctuality and reliability into a single performance measure. It covers all scheduled services, seven days a week. It measures the performance of individual trains against their planned timetable.

Passenger Charter forms the basis of season ticket refunds. It only covers some trains, broadly defined as weekday am and pm peak services in the south-east and all day Monday to Saturday elsewhere. There are some variations between train operating companies.

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