§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to his answer of 17 January 2000,Official Report, column 226W, if he will list the areas of social and economic need which will benefit from the Action Zones Initiative. [146653]
§ Mr. Alan HowarthThe National Foundation for Youth Music launched six of the proposed 20 Youth Music Action Zones on 14 December 2000. The Zones are in areas of social and economic need and have been allocated using the DETR social inclusion list of the 72 most deprived boroughs, the Rural Development Agency register and through local consultation about ward level areas of need. The six Zones are: London (principally Brent and Newham); Greater Manchester; North Lancashire; North of England (includes Barrow-in-Furness, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Carlisle, Darlington, North Shields, Durham, Wolsingham, Stockton and Wooler); East of England (including projects in Norfolk); and Thanet/Kent.
Further Youth Music Action Zones will soon be operating in Liverpool, Cornwall, and in the South East (across Kent, East Sussex, Surrey and the Unitary Authorities of Medway and Brighton and Hove).