§ Mr. Hoyleasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will include the other public authorities in North East Lancashire, as well as Blackburn, in the inner cities Bill.
§ Mr. Guy Barnett:In drawing up the list of authorities to be designated under the Inner Urban Areas Act, I gave careful consideration to all cases put forward. Blackburn was an obvious case for designation in North-East Lancashire. I would not wish to depart from the general principle of designating only a limited number of authorities, which suffer the greatest concentration of problems and 684W which must therefore receive the highest priority.