Inner City Partnerships (Hansard, 16 December 1981)

§ Mr. King

The formal structure of each partnership consists of a number of committees and groups of officials as follows:

Liverpool

Partnership committee
Policy co-ordinating group of officials
Working parties on the economy and transportation

Birmingham

Partnership committee
Office steering group
Inner city team (of officials)
Inner city team sub-groups on the economy, society; 169 physical environment; housing; movement; learning and leisure; health and personal social services

Newcastle-Gateshead

Partnership committee
Members steering group
Officers group
Programme co-ordinator
Working groups on economic development; housing and its environment; education and leisure; health and personal social services

Manchester-Salford

Partnership committee
Officer working party
Inner city group—local authority and central Government representatives—task force—of officials and representatives from the private sector

Hackney-Islington

Partnership committee
Members steering group
Officers steering group
Inner city unity
OSG sub-groups on employment; finance; vacant and derelict land and buildings; primary health care; language-education

Lambeth

Partnership committee
Officers steering group
Inner city unit

Lambeth

Sub-groups on employment and physical decay
Social policy forum
Working group on the private sector
Working parties on income maintenance and low pay; monitoring and evaluation

The Docklands Partnership has effectively been disbanded following the establishment of the London Docklands Development Corporation.

The duties of the partnership committees are to prepare and supervise the implementation of inner area programmes within their defined partnership areas. The other bodies listed assist them in this work.

Since we came into office, we have streamlined the machinery of partnership, and this has been reflected in a reduction in the number of sub-groups servicing the main partnership committees. Some of those listed now meet very infrequently. Others have been created to fulfil a specific remit, and have replaced sub-groups whose task has been completed.