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Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what evaluation has taken place of the effectiveness of shared home ownership schemes. [102653]
Mr. McNulty: Independent research "The Evaluation of the Low Cost Home Ownership Programme" commissioned by the former Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (now the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) and the Welsh Assembly Government was published in September 2002. Shared ownership was one of the components of the study, and the main messages from the research were that consumer satisfaction with low cost home ownership schemes was high and that schemes represented good value for money.
The issues will now be taken forward by the Home Ownership Task Force announced in "Sustainable communities: building for the future" on 5 February. The terms of reference for the task force will be announced shortly.
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much money per head of population has been given in
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government grant to each of the shire counties in each of the last 10 years; and what the real terms changes were in each of those years. [103116]
Mr. Raynsford: The available information is in the following tables. The figures given are for formula grant, which comprises revenue support grant, redistributed business rates and Standard Service Assessment reduction grants (where appropriate).
There have been many changes to the functions and funding of local government services over the last ten years, and like-for-like comparisons of grants between years cannot be made for years when changes have taken place unless figures are adjusted to take account of the changes.
For years from 19992000, adjusted figures for individual shire county councils exist because they were needed to allow like-for-like comparisons as part of the floors and ceilings calculations.
For years before 19992000, adjusted grant figures for individual shire county councils do not exist. A like-for-like comparison between 199899 and 19992000 can, however, be made using unadjusted figures. This is because there were no changes in function or funding between 199899 and 19992000 that needed reflecting by adjusting the grant figures for 199899.
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19992000 | 200001 | 200102 | 200203 | 200304 | |
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Avon | | | | | |
Bedfordshire(13) | 496 | 545 | 537 | 522 | 588 |
Berkshire | | | | | |
Buckinghamshire(13) | 433 | 478 | 475 | 456 | 520 |
Cambridgeshire(15) | 414 | 440 | 436 | 438 | 521 |
Cheshire(15) | 460 | 491 | 492 | 480 | 542 |
Cleveland | | | | | |
Cornwall | 508 | 546 | 542 | 542 | 596 |
Cumbria | 515 | 554 | 555 | 549 | 602 |
Derbyshire(13) | 468 | 511 | 509 | 510 | 582 |
Devon(15) | 453 | 487 | 483 | 482 | 529 |
Dorset(14) | 399 | 433 | 431 | 417 | 463 |
Durham(14) | 549 | 587 | 587 | 593 | 675 |
East Sussex(14) | 458 | 506 | 501 | 507 | 560 |
Essex(15) | 485 | 536 | 531 | 530 | 580 |
Gloucestershire | 451 | 492 | 487 | 482 | 547 |
Hampshire(14) | 405 | 445 | 441 | 455 | 506 |
Hereford and Worcester | | | | | |
Hertfordshire | 490 | 541 | 536 | 524 | 577 |
Humberside | | | | | |
Isle of Wight | | | | | |
Kent(15) | 515 | 567 | 562 | 551 | 610 |
Lancashire(15) | 530 | 567 | 567 | 570 | 627 |
Leicestershire(14) | 441 | 483 | 477 | 462 | 521 |
Lincolnshire | 506 | 552 | 548 | 544 | 595 |
Norfolk | 463 | 500 | 496 | 498 | 559 |
North Yorkshire(13) | 460 | 500 | 496 | 486 | 543 |
Northamptonshire | 517 | 550 | 545 | 535 | 603 |
Northumberland | 546 | 586 | 585 | 567 | 624 |
Nottinghamshire(15) | 486 | 529 | 526 | 524 | 587 |
Oxfordshire | 403 | 447 | 440 | 439 | 512 |
Shropshire(15) | 461 | 499 | 495 | 505 | 560 |
Somerset | 444 | 485 | 481 | 492 | 550 |
Staffordshire(14) | 476 | 504 | 504 | 496 | 561 |
Suffolk | 465 | 502 | 499 | 488 | 554 |
Surrey | 366 | 406 | 400 | 399 | 454 |
Warwickshire | 436 | 465 | 464 | 459 | 528 |
West Sussex | 410 | 451 | 446 | 450 | 503 |
Wiltshire(14) | 419 | 456 | 452 | 445 | 514 |
Worcestershire | 427 | 458 | 457 | 452 | 503 |
Grant per head figures have been calculated bydividing the total grant by the resident | | | | | |
(13) The area covered by the county changed on 1 April 1996 due to local government re-organisation.
(14) The area covered by the county changed on 1 April 1997 due to local government re-organisation.
(15) The area covered by the county changed on 1 April 1998 due to local government re-organisation.
The area covered by the county changed on 1 April 1996 due to local government re-organisation.
Note:
Grant per head figures have been calculated by dividing the total grant by the resident population in the year for which figures were used in the local government finance settlement (e.g. mid-2001 populations were used when calculating figures for 200304).
Note:
Real terms figures have been calculated using the GDP deflator
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