HC Deb 17 July 1972 vol 841 cc32-3W
71. Mr. Willey

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the number of legal aid applications which were made at magistrates' courts in the Northern Region during 1971 in respect of summary proceedings and cases committed for trial, respectively; and what is the number of legal aid applications granted in each of these respects in each case and the number of refusals

Mr. Carlisle

The following table contains the information requested:

how much has been spent in constant prices on the urban programme since its inception: and how much in constant prices it is proposed to spend over the period covered by the five-year expenditure forecasts on the urban programmes, excluding any special additional element of grant-aided capital spending in development and intermediate areas which do not fall into the category of being appled to an urban area of special social need.

Mr. Lane

Public expenditure in Great Britain on the urban programme at 1971 prices is estimated at £17.5 million during the period 1968–69 to 1971–72. The latest forecast of expenditure from 1972–73 to 1975–76 is £42.6 million. These estimates, which exclude extra grant-aided capital expenditures authorised for development and intermediate areas, have been extracted from the White Paper (Cmnd. 4829) published in November, 1971, and, after price adjustments, from previous White Papers on Public Expenditure.