§ Mr. Frank Fieldasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the latest data on the 393W expenditure to date by the Merseyside development corporation; and if these data can be divided as to whether the expenditure was undertaken on the Liverpool or Wirral side of the Mersey.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinThe expenditure to date by the Merseyside Development Corporation is £76.4 million. Of this amount, £73.3 million has been spent on the Liverpool side of the Mersey and £3.1 million on the Wirral side. I continue to seek ways to resolve the difficulties over those parts of the Birkenhead docks which lie within the MDC's designated area.