Fires: Moorland

(asked on 7th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Manchester Evening News article, Greater Manchester is still owed £1 million by the government for battling last summer's moorland blazes, published on 6 February 2018, when his Department plans to issue its response to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s application for funding under the Bellwin Scheme.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 25th February 2019

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority has made an application to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government for financial help through the Bellwin Scheme in respect of the additional costs incurred for battling last summer’s moorland blazes. The application is being considered by both the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Home Office who are the Department with responsibility for fire. A decision on that application is expected soon.

The table below sets out the Bellwin payments that have been made to local authorities between May 2015 and December 2018.

BELLWIN PAYMENTS 2015-16 to 2018-19

YEAR OF PAYMENT

LOCAL AUTHORITY

GRANT PAID, £

2015-16 Total for year

0

2016-17

Allerdale Borough Council

218,274

Bury Council

111,490

Calderdale Council

1,029,731

Carlisle City Council

377,912

Chorley Council

74,238

City of York Council

170,700

Cumbria County Council

2,185,838

Eden District Council

23,077

Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service

63,123

North Yorkshire County Council

176,449

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority

302,982

Northumberland County Council

1,082,555

Ribble Valley Borough Council

50,903

Rochdale Borough Council

139,674

Salford City Council

80,485

Selby District Council

13,740

South Lakeland

177,581

District Council Wyre Council

15,701

Total for year

6,294,453

2017-18

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council

6,753,849

Total for year

6,753,849

2018-19 (to date)

North Norfolk District Council

8,825

Scarborough Borough Council

171,471

Waveney District Council

88,280

Total for year

268,576

Total over last 4 years

13,316,878


*Payments may not necessarily be in the same financial year as the incidents occurred. The amount claimed is net of threshold and grant rate.

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