§ Mr. Severasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he is yet in a position to say which projects have been approved for grant aid under urban programme circular No. 18.
§ Mr. Guy BarnettUnder urban programme circular 18 I have approved capital and non-capital schemes for urban aid to begin this year. Of the £6.4 million available, about £3.9 million will go on capital projects £1.1 million on the running costs of these projects and £1.4 million on non-capital projects. This is in addition to the resources already allocated for such projects in the inner city areas of the partnership and programme authorities.
Voluntary organisations will be involved in the running of 122 of the approved projects worth about £2.6 million; at least 73 of the schemes worth about £1.3 million will be of specific benefit to ethnic minority groups. Appropriately, in the International Year of the Child, nearly half the schemes will be of direct benefit to children. I shall place a list of all the approved projects in the Library of the House.