HC Deb 08 January 2002 vol 377 cc776-9W
Malcolm Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her answer of 6 December 2001,Official Report, column 497W, on the Excellence in Cities Scheme, if she will list the towns and villages that will cover the 24 excellence clusters by September 2002; and where their funding will come from. [24383]

Mr. Timms

I have been asked to reply.

The 24 Excellence Clusters that will be working by September 2002 are:

  • Barnet
  • Bishop Auckland
  • Coventry
  • Crewe
  • Croydon (Croydon and Thornton Heath)
  • Derby
  • Dewsbury and Batley (Dewsbury, Batley, Holmfirth and Heckmondwike)
  • East Lancashire (Burnley and Nelson)
  • High Wycombe (High Wycombe and Marlow)
  • Hillingdon (Hillingdon, Hayes, Uxbridge and West Drayton)
  • Huddersfield
  • Lancaster
  • Milton Keynes
  • Norwich
  • Peterborough
    • 777W
  • Portsmouth (Portsmouth and Southsea)
  • Shepway (Folkestone, Hythe and New Romney)
  • Stockport
  • Tameside (Ashton under Lyne, Hyde and Dukinfield)
  • Tilbury and Chadwell (Tilbury, Grays and Stanford le Hope)
    • 778W
  • Walsall (Walsall and Wednesbury)
  • West Cumbria (Cleator Moor, Maryport, Whitehaven and Workington)
  • West Lancashire (Skelmersdale and Ormskirk)
  • Wigan.

Their funding comes from the DfES Standards Fund.

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