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Local Government Finance

Norman Lamb: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what account he has taken of the extra cost of providing services in rural areas in the local government formula grant review. [80929]

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Mr. Raynsford: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my honourable friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey) on 4 November 2002, Official Report, column 49W.

Mr. Leigh: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what account he has taken of the cost of providing services in rural areas in the local government formula grant review. [80389]

Mr. Raynsford: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my honourable friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey) on 4 November 2002, Official Report, column 49W.

Mr. Leigh: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what assessment he has made of rural deprivation in the local government formula grant review. [80390]

Mr. Raynsford: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my honourable friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey) on 4 November 2002, Official Report, column 52W.

Mr. Leigh: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what impact changes in the local government formula grant will have on public services in West Lincolnshire. [80391]

Mr. Raynsford: We will announce the new system for distributing formula grant, including detailed grant allocations for individual authorities, at the time of the provisional local government finance settlement which we expect to be around the start of December. Once the Government has allocated its grant, decisions about budgets and services are primarily for local councils to make. However, we have already guaranteed that no authority will face a cut in grant next year on a like for like basis, and we hope to do better than that when we announce the actual floors and ceilings scheme as part of the provisional settlement.

Mr. Leigh: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what research was done by his Department into the impact of dispersal and settlement patterns on the cost of providing services in rural areas as part of the local government formula grant review. [80392]

Mr. Raynsford: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my honourable friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey) on 4 November 2002, Official Report, columns 49–50W.

Norman Lamb: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of rural deprivation in the local government formula grant review. [80930]

Mr. Raynsford: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my honourable friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey) on 4 November 2002, Official Report, column 52W.

Neighbourhood Renewal

Mr. Edward Davey: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the estimated (a) date, (b) cost to his Department and (c) cost to other Government bodies is of the incorporation of the neighbourhood wardens and street wardens into a new Neighbourhood Renewal Unit funding channel. [81703]

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Mrs. Roche: The incorporation of the neighbourhood and street wardens into a new Neighbourhood Renewal funding stream is already under way. There will be no cost to the office of the Deputy Prime Minister or other Government departments. Indeed, a single wardens funding stream should help to streamline and simplify arrangements both for grant recipients and those administering the programmes.

Prisoners (Housing Resettlement)

Lynne Jones: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he will be responding to the Social Exclusion Unit's recommendations on prisoners' housing resettlement needs in their report on reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners. [81041]

Mrs. Roche: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Withington (Mr. Bradley) on 24 October 2002, Official Report, column 495W.

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is awaiting the production of the Reducing Re-Offending Action Plan. It will work closely to influence cross-cutting solutions to impact on prisoners' housing resettlement needs before and after release.

EDUCATION

Class Sizes

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was spent through the Standards Fund in 2001–02 by each local education authority on class size reduction. [81083]

Mr. Miliband: In 2001–02 just over #156 million revenue and #23 million capital grant was allocated to local education authorities, to reduce infant class sizes for five, six and seven-year-olds to 30 or fewer.

The following table sets out how much grant was allocated to each local education authority.

Capital and Revenue Allocations 2001–02
#

LEA name2001 (FY01–02) Capital2001 (FY01–02) Revenue
Barking and Dagenham0185,526
Barnet0146,250
Barnsley11,568911,262
Bath and North East Somerset284,818349,563
Bedfordshire372,7661,815,474
Bexley10,718516,693
Birmingham01,266,912
Blackburn and Darwen154,347803,038
Blackpool112,564392,902
Bolton67,0001,158,745
Bournemouth1,600,491380,375
Bracknell Forest60,480361,463
Bradford02,355,563
Brent0126,000
Brighton and Hove0752,033
Bristol0851,063
Bromley0990,000
Buckinghamshire845,8982,263,231
Bury01,286,688
Calderdale2,459980,476
Cambridgeshire23,1551,886,827
Camden078,667
Cheshire224,6772,407,878
City of London00
Cornwall01,977,256
Coventry7761,262,035
Croydon0324,212
Cumbria72,8481,584,188
Darlington37,027433,500
Derby, City of01,163,438
Derbyshire2,746,3613,517,617
Devon155,2122,625,967
Doncaster148,358907,103
Dorset417,9951,836,945
Dudley0509,293
Durham02,550,014
Baling496,959716,211
East Riding of Yorkshire160,0001,626,258
East Sussex121,0001,457,630
Enfield9,251916,206
Essex156,0513,337,250
Gateshead0237,153
Gloucestershire269,5142,467,212
Greenwich0186,667
Hackney0217,000
Halton0664,488
Hammersmith and Fulham046,667
Hampshire320,7733,596,433
Haringey0438,511
Harrow0297,000
Hartlepool0231,729
Havering143,160559,572
Herefordshire90,478586,075
Hertfordshire03,298,000
Hillingdon0672,162
Hounslow0355,500
Isle of Wight16,787384,632
Isles of Scilly00
Islington00
Kensington and Chelsea00
Kent1,133,4322,822,425
Kingston upon Hull0673,625
Kingston upon Thames1,459,978971,325
Kirklees167,5741,960,159
Knowsley0471,750
Lambeth0135,333
Lancashire361,8874,753,165
Leeds02,998,906
Leicester City124,000773,743
Leicestershire522,0322,481,575
Lewisham0311,918
Lincolnshire1,865,5422,115,816
Liverpool85,000611,573
Luton1,987650,173
Manchester01,645,352
Medway0655,853
Merton482,128862,441
Middlesbrough0285,459
Milton Keynes0488,620
Newcastle upon Tyne1,000932,510
Newham0361,667
Norfolk552,5873,324,266
North East Lincolnshire37,321646,908
North Lincolnshire0807,883
North Somerset155,587480,253
North Tyneside0523,833
North Yorkshire95,0002,380,694
Northamptonshire441,3452,077,400
Northumberland11,2751,185,963
Nottingham City0732,510
Nottinghamshire181,2503,471,302
Oldham22,3731,042,829
Oxfordshire338,6581,406,290
Peterborough0640,120
Plymouth0833,071
Poole34,514381,438
Portsmouth351,000461,853
Reading4,900277,100
Redbridge85,000565,598
Redcar and Cleveland39,146560,628
Richmond Upon Thames769,280384,750
Rochdale01,160,250
Rotherham85,050860,625
Rutland78,568157,250
Salford0977,499
Sandwell01,159,622
Sefton24,9241,156,452
Sheffield114,0001,055,096
Shropshire4,0001,039,816
Slough0259,268
Solihull3,750942,163
Somerset283,7862,075,063
South Gloucestershire122,4571,297,950
South Tyneside2,300497,250
Southampton0417,461
Southend on Sea0414,375
Southwark315,875279,472
St. Helens91,393541,875
Staffordshire183,8002,672,217
Stockport6,8001,355,407
Stockton on Tees0799,850
Stoke on Trent01,023,721
Suffolk261,000819,328
Sunderland0367,625
Surrey432,7942,523,980
Sutton0618,750
Swindon87,950806,650
Tameside100,7081,087,696
Telford and Wrekin0680,000
Thurrock0251,596
Torbay352,506353,813
Tower Hamlets00
Trafford68,030590,750
Wakefield64,3261,444,546
Walsall0639,625
Waltham Forest190,000176,759
Wandsworth0305,667
Warrington264,000699,125
Warwickshire143,6852,151,704
West Berkshire235,813522,622
West Sussex27,6621,406,750
Westminster016,333
Wigan2,4291,440,750
Wiltshire4,7811,890,846
Windsor and Maidenhead129,249506,263
Wirral393,000726,028
Wokingham484,500473,317
Wolverhampton107,000764,575
Worcestershire132,5001,731,457
York0621,562
Total England23,255,924156,159,421

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