§ Viscount Davidsonasked Her Majesty's Government:
What resources will be made available for the Urban Programme in 1993/94.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment (Lord Strathclyde)We are pleased to announce a substantial Urban Programme funding package for 1993/94. Allocations to the 57 Urban Programme authorities in England for 1993/94 total £163m. These resources will fund projects which have been approved in this and previous financial years. The allocations are set out in the table below.
An additional £20 million is being provided for Urban Partnership Fund projects as part of the new Capital Partnership programme. Successful project bids under this initiative were announced by my right honourable and learned friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on 12th February 1993. Together with the £232 million being made available for City Challenge, resources will rise by £90 million to £408 million in 1993/94.
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£ million Urban Programme Allocation 1993–94 Newcastle 5.340 Gateshead 5.272 Hartlepool 1.309 Langbaurgh 1.331 Middlesbrough 3.325 North Tyneside 2.231 South Tyneside 3.158 Stockton 1.280 Sunderland 3.317 Manchester 9.048 Salford 4.529 Blackburn 2.115 Bolton 2.253 Burnley 1.396 Oldham 2.554 Preston 1.210 Rochdale 2.475 Wigan 1.704 Liverpool 12.364 Halton 0.968 Knowsley 2.615 St. Helens 1.185 Sefton 1.000 Wirral 2.340 Birmingham 14.847 Coventry 3.065 Dudley 1.030 Sandwell 3.148 Walsall 1.051 Wolverhampton 3.522 The Wrekin 0.634 Derby 0.837 Leicester 3.143 46WA
Urban Programme Allocation 1993–94 Nottingham 3.530 Barnsley 1.342 Bradford 3.002 Doncaster 1.288 Hull 3.265 Kirklees 0.724 Leeds 3.473 Rotherharn 1.486 Sheffield 3.940 Hackney 3.425 Islington 5.873 Lambeth 5.863 Brent 1.436
Urban Programme Allocation 1993–94 Greenwich 1.112 Hammersmith and Fulham 1.707 Haringey 2.012 Kensington and Chelsea 1.202 Lewisham 1.530 Newham 1.974 Southwark 1.826 Tower Hamlets 3.083 Wandsworth 2.110 Bristol 1.109 Plymouth 0.925 TOTAL 162.834