§ Mr. Maxwell-Hyslopasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether all authority for expenditure from central Government funds on the provision of buildings, accommodation, fittings and equipment for (a) the Scottish and (b) the Welsh Assemblies has been terminated 743W since Friday 2 March; and whether notice has been given since that date terminating all incompleted contracts.
§ Mr. MarksIn Scotland work under existing contracts at the Royal high school and St. Andrew's House is continuing pending decisions on the future of the devolution proposals but no further work will be commissioned until a decision is made. The Cardiff Exchange is held on a 20-year lease, with a break clause after 10; rental payments remain a firm commitment. Work on the conversion of the Exchange was suspended
744W following the statement by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales on 7 April 1977.—[Vol. 929, c. 604.]
Submitted Date of submission Date of notice of approval Greater London development plan … … … … August 1969 9 July 1976 Solihull … … … … 15 March 1973 6 May 1975 Warwickshire … … … … 29 March 1973 28 July 1975 Coventry … … … … 5 April 1973 5 May 1975 Worcestershire … … … … 23 May 1973 28 July 1975 South Hampshire … … … … 23 January 1974 10 March 1977 West Bromwich … … … … 14 February 1974 17 May 1978 Wolverhampton … … … … 15 February 1974 17 May 1978 Birmingham … … … … 22 March 1974 17 May 1978 Walsall … … … … 26 March 1974 17 May 1978 Warley … … … … 26 March 1974 17 May 1978 Dudley … … … … 27 March 1974 17 May 1978 Staffordshire … … … … 4 March 1974 11 April 1978 Stoke-on-Trent … … … … 20 March 1974 11 April 1978 Burton upon Trent … … … … 28 March 1974 11 April 1978 Leicester—Leicestershire … … … … 20 March 1974 27 May 1976 Hereford … … … … 21 March 1974 26 January 1976 Teeside … … … … 27 March 1974 31 October 1977 East Cleveland … … … … 2 January 1975 31 October 1977 West Cleveland … … … … 2 January 1975 31 October 1977 East Sussex … … … … 23 July 1975 17 May 1978 Isle of Wight … … … … 24 March 1976 8 February 1979 Hertfordshire … … … … 5 April 1976 Peak District National Park … … … … 23 August 1976 Oxfordshire … … … … 1 September 1976 26 February 1979 Buckinghamshire … … … … 2 February 1977 Humberside … … … … 4 March 1977 Suffolk … … … … 10 March 1977 Norfolk … … … … 21 March 1977 Bedfordshire … … … … 18 April 1977 Cheshire … … … … 2 May 1977 Derbyshire … … … … 2 May 1977 Leicestershire (Rutland) … … … … 10 August 1977 West Berkshire … … … … 22 August 1977 26 February 1979 Kent … … … … 14 September 1977 Northamptonshire … … … … 30 November 1977 South Yorkshire … … … … 7 February 1978 Surrey … … … … 3 April 1978 Cleveland (Hartlepool) … … … … 15 May 1978 Central Berkshire … … … … 7 June 1978 East Berkshire … … … … 7 June 1978 South-East Dorset … … … … 14 June 1978 Salop … … … … 16 June 1978 West Sussex … … … … 10 July 1978 North-East Hampshire … … … … 27 July 1978 North-East Lancashire … … … … 31 August 1978 Mid-Hampshire … … … … 28 September 1978 Hereford and Worcester (Worcester City) … … … … 6 October 1978 Cambridgeshire … … … … 28 December 1978 Nottinghamshire … … … … 13 February 1979 South Wiltshire … … … … 26 February 1979 TOTAL SUBMITTED—51 TOTAL APPROVED—24