HC Deb 11 January 1994 vol 235 cc15-6W
Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will tabulate each of the existing Government programmes for Greater London which he is expecting to incorporate in the planned unified regional regeneration budget, together with the sums he intends to allocate to each programme together with the total.

Mr. Gummer

[holding answer 17 December 1993]: From 1 April 1994, the single regeneration budget will bring together 20 existing Government programmes to provide flexible support for local initiatives to promote regeneration and economic development in England. The Government programmes transferring to the budget are: From the Department of the Environment:

  • Estate Action
  • Housing Action Trusts
  • City Challenge/Urban Programme
  • Urban Regeneration Agency
  • Urban Development Corporations
  • Inner City Task Forces
  • City Action Teams
From the Employment Department
  • Programme Development Fund
  • Education Business Partnerships
  • Teacher Placement Service
  • Compacts/Inner City Compacts
  • Business Start-Up Scheme
  • Local Initiative Fund
  • TEC Challenge
 From the Home Office
  • Safer Cities
  • Section II Grants (part)
  • Ethnic Minority Grant
  • Ethnic Minority Business Grant

From the Department of Trade and Industry Regional Enterprise Grants (plus English Estates, to be subsumed into English Partnerships) From the Department for Education Grants for Education Support and Training (part) Resources totalling over £1.4 billion are being made available under the single regeneration budget in 1994–95: a regional breakdown is not currently available. However a regional breakdown of resources for 1993–94 under my Department's targeted programmes was provided in my reply to the hon. Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn) on 10 December at columns 384–86.