§ Mr. Tilleyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will make a statement on the new arrangements for funding the revenue costs of established urban aid projects, and on the extra funds which will now be released for new urban programme projects in the Lambeth partnership in 1978–79.
§ Mr. Guy Barnett:The original allocations of urban programme resources for partnerships covered not only new projects, but also continuing commitments arising from the urban programme schemes started before the partnerships were established. I have, however, decided that in order to increase the level of resources available for new projects, partnerships should be given additional 885W resources to cover these continuing commitments. The partnerships have been notified individually of the sums involved which total some £6 million. Of this, Lambeth will get £0.8 million extra for their resource allocation in 1979–80.