Local authorities in Sussex are failing to benefit from a boom in the South-East.

A survey by NatWest of households with an income of more than £100,000 found that of the 40 richest local authorities in Britain, 33 were in the South.

Despite this, Mid Sussex was 65th on the list of 459 local authorities surveyed with Brighton and Hove 107th.

In Mid Sussex there were 1,416 households, a percentage of 2.7, with an income of more than £100,000 and in Brighton 981, only 1.4 per cent, fell into this income bracket.

Brighton and Hove has one of the lowest rates of income in the South-East with 8,000 people out of work - six per cent of the population.

Des Turner, MP for Brighton, said: "Brighton's population is much less wealthy than most other places in the South.

"There is a lot of poverty in the city. One of the reasons behind this is there was once a manufacturing industry here which collapsed so now people are very dependent on retail and tourism, which pay notoriously low wages."

A NatWest spokesman said the survey showed the "super wealthy are still concentrated in London and the South East".

"Yet there are clearly pockets of wealth across the country."