§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what moneys are available for urban and regeneration expenditure for 1994–95; how much is available under each of the 20 targeted Government programmes contained within the single regeneration budget; what were the corresponding figures for each year since 1988–89 in cash terms and at current prices; and what is the planned expenditure for 1995–96 and 1996–97 in cash terms at current prices.
§ Mr. BaldryPlanned funding by my Department on urban and regeneration expenditure in 1994–95 is as follows:
£ million Urban Development Corporations 286 Housing Action Trusts 88 English Partnerships 181 Estate Action 373 City Challenge 1213 Urban Programme 83 Task Forces 16 City Action Teams 1 Safer Cities 4 Section 11 (part) 60 Ethnic Minority Grant/Business Initiative 6 Programme Development Fund 3 TEC Challenge 4 Local Initiative Fund 29 Business Start Up Scheme 70 Education Business Partnerships 2 Compacts 6 Teacher Placement Service 3 Grants for Education Support and Training 5 Regional Enterprise Grants 9 TOTAL: Single Regeneration Budget 1,442 Manchester Regeneration 23 Special Grants Programme 2 Coalfield Areas Fund 2 TOTAL: 1,469 Note: 1 Programme also supported by £19 million from the Housing Corporation.
Information on expenditure in previous years for my Department's programmes can be found in the departmental annual reports and public expenditure White Papers, copies of which are in the Library of the House. Information on previous years' expenditure for the programmes transferring to the single regeneration budget from the Home Office, the Employment Department, the Department of Education and the Department of Trade and Industry will be contained in their respective departmental annual reports.
In 1994–95, the single regeneration budget will largely operate through arrangements in place for the existing 20 programmes being brought together. Commitments under these programmes will be met for 1994–95 and later years. For 1995–96 and beyond, the non-departmental public bodies supported by the budget—English Partnerships, housing action trusts and urban development corporations —will, as now, receive specific allocations; and the rest of the budget will be combined.
915WOn current plans, the budget will be worth some £1.3 billion in each of 1995–96 and 1996–97. The Department of the Environment's 1994 annual report provides more detailed information.
§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what moneys are available for local authorities to bid for and are uncommitted from the urban and regeneration expenditure for 1994–95; how much is available under each of the 20 targeted Government programmes; and what are the corresponding figures for 1995–96 and 1996–97 in cash terms and at current prices;
(2) what funds are available for all non-urban programme areas to bid for, that are uncommitted, from the single regeneration budget excluding the year 1995–96; and how much is available under each of the 20 targeted Government programmes within the single regeneration budget;
(3) what funds are available for all urban programme authorities to bid for, that are uncommitted, from the single regeneration budget, for the year 1995–96; and how much is available under each of the 20 targeted Government programmes within the single regeneration budget.
§ Mr. BaldryIn 1994–95 the funds available under the single regeneration budget will be taken up in meeting existing commitments from the 20 programmes which habve been brought together to form the budget.
The total budget, on current plans, will be worth some £ 1.3 billion in 1995–96 and it is expected that about £100 million will be available to support bids from local partnerships. The budget will be available throughout England, and we intend to issue guidance on bidding soon.
On current plans, the budget will again be worth some £1.3 billion in 1966–67. It is too early to say how much will be available for bidding after 1995–96. The availability of resources will depend on the levels of commitments from previous years and the outcome on the annual public expenditure surveys.
I provided further information about the programmes being brought together in the budget in the separate reply I gave to the hon. Member today.
§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list for each year since 1981 in cash terms and at current prices the total amount of moneys made available to(a) urban programme authorities, (b) non-urban programme authorities and (c) urban regeneration in (i) urban development corporations, (ii) urban programme, (iii) city grant, or urban regeneration grant or urban development grant, (iv) derelict land grant, (v) city challenge, (vi) housing action trusts, (vii) estate action, (viii) safer cities, (ix) urban crime fund, (x) task forces, (xi) city action teams, (xii) single regeneration budget and (xiii) other programmes available relating to linkage between economic, social and physical regeneration.
§ Mr. BaldryThe information sought is not available and cannot readily be produced in the form specified. In previous years a number of Government Departments have contributed to urban regeneration through a wide range of programmes under the action for cities initiative. From 1 April 1994, 20 regeneration programmes are being brought together to form a single regeneration budget which will be administered through the unified network of Government offices for the regions.
Some information on expenditure on these programmes in previous years, including the Home Office's safer cities 916W programme, can be found in the relevant departmental annual reports and public expenditure White Papers, copies of which are in the Library of the House.
§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what funds are available from the single regeneration budget for urban programme authorities and for non-urban programme authorities; what different criteria or rules will be adopted for the 57 urban programme areas; and how much is available for either urban programme or non-urban programme authorities and each of the 20 targeted programmes within the single regeneration budget.
§ Mr. BaldryAs the single regeneration budget is available throughout England, and proposals for funding will be locally driven, the existing list of 57 urban priority areas will not be used to direct budget resources and is being discontinued. In assessing proposals which aim mainly at relieving deprivation, the Government offices for the regions will take account of detailed information about local conditions based on the 1991 index of local conditions, to be published soon, and other relevant data.
I provided further information about the programmes being brought together in the budget in the separate reply I gave the hon. Member today.