§ Mr. DafisTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how much public money was spent on cleaning up contaminated land on inner-city development sites during 1994–95. [310]
§ Mr. ClappisonPublic expenditure support for the redevelopment of inner-city and other sites—including, where necessary, the costs of dealing with contaminated soil—is made available under a number of different programmes. In England, these included in 1994–95 English Partnerships' investment fund, city challenge and urban programme; parallel arrangements exist in Wales and Scotland.
Funding to meet the costs of land remediation typically constitutes only one element of a wider package of support for individual projects under these programmes. The various different cost elements are not separately identified in centrally collected records, and it is therefore not possible to provide a detailed breakdown in the form requested.