§ Mr. Ernest G. Perryasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if 339W he will make a statement on which districts he proposes to designate under the Inner Urban Areas Bill.
§ Mr. ShoreAs I have already informed the House. I propose to designate all the partnership and programme districts. These are:
(partnership districts)
- Hackney
- Islington
- Lambeth
- Greenwich
- Lewisham
- Newham
- Southwark
- Tower Hamlets
- Birmingham
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Salford
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Gateshead
(programme districts)
- North Tyneside
- South Tyneside
- Sunderland
- Middlesbrough
- Bolton
- Oldham
- Wirral
- Bradford
- Hull
- Leeds
- Sheffield
- Wolverhampton
- Leicester
- Nottingham
- Hammersmith
I have also reviewed the claims of other districts and have considered very carefully the available evidence including the many submissions that have been made to me. As in the selection of partnership and programme authorities, I have taken into account a range of factors that illustrate the scale and intensity of social and economic deprivation in the possible candidate districts. But since the Inner Urban Areas Bill is primarily concerned with helping the economy of inner areas and with bringing back into use vacant and derelict sites, I have placed particular emphasis on the unemployment rate and the amount of dereliction to be found in each district. In the light of these considerations, I propose to designate, in addition to those listed above, the following 14 districts and London boroughs:
- Hartlepool
- Blackburn
- Rochdale
- Sefton
- St. Helens
- Wigan
- Barnsley
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- Rotherham
- Sandwell
- Brent
- Ealing
- Haringey
- Wandsworth