§ Mr. Joseph Deanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the objectives and content of the proposed extension of the research programme into the social and economic problems of the inner cities.
§ Mr. FreesonThe Department has initiated a new phase of research into the problems of inner urban areas, which will carry forward the research effort previously centred on the inner area studies and will assist the development of the Government's inner area policy as announced in the White Paper "Policy for the Inner Cities", Cmnd. 6845. The proposals include projects on population
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