HC Deb 13 February 2001 vol 363 c105W
15. Mr. Watts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will make a statement on housing investment in the north-west. [148456]

Mr. Robert Ainsworth

The north-west is, like all regions, benefiting from the substantial increases in resources already made available and the further increases planned for the next three years. The resources allocated to local authorities in the north-west for housing investment in 2001–02 amounts to around £350 million which is well over twice the amount allocated for 1997–98 by the last Government.