HC Deb 08 March 1979 vol 963 cc742-4W
Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop

asked 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 since Friday 2 March; and whether notice has been given since that date terminating all incompleted contracts.

Mr. Marks

In 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

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
following the statement by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales on 7 April 1977.—[Vol. 929, c. 604.]