§ Mr. Nicholas BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the projects and programmes that he has specifically targeted at the Meadow Well estate, North Shields, Tyne and Wear since 1979; and how he evaluates their outcome.
§ Mr. YeoThe local targeting of expenditure under the urban programme and estate action is primarily the responsibility of the local authorities which bid for and deliver these programmes.
Since 1979, the Department has funded an annual urban programme in North Tyneside, for expenditure on projects related to the defined inner area, which includes the Meadow Well estate. In 1988 an estate action scheme was approved for part of the north Meadow Well. The authority has very recently been given the go-ahead to work up estate action proposals to the rest of north Meadow Well.
In addition, the work of the Tyne and Wear development corporation includes activities of benefit to the Meadow Well estate.
In each of these programmes the local authority, or the UDC respectively, are required to monitor projects, and sample monitoring of a selection of projects is carried out by the Department's regional office.