§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table in the Official Report showing how much of the £400 million allocated to the construction industry will be spent in each of the standard regions of England, in Scotland, and Wales; and how much this represents per head of population.
§ Mr. ArmstrongThe allocation to departmental programmes of the £400 million additional expenditure on construction for 1978–79 was given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on 9th November380W 1977 in reply to a Question from my hon. Friend the Member for Goole (Dr. Marshall)—[Vol. 938, c. 121–2]. The programmes within the responsibilities of the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales were allocated £52 million and £15 million respectively. Most of the amounts allocated to departmental programmes in England were added to the much larger sums already assigned to those programmes in earlier public expenditure plans. As it is these total sums which are then allocated regionally or locally, it is not possible to identify specifically each English region's share of the £400 million.