§ 71. Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement regarding his Department's attitude towards rescue archaeology and the funding of essential work.
§ Mr. HeseltineThe Government seek to maintain in the financial year 1981–82 the present level of provision for rescue archaeology. Officials have recently written to applicants for grant notifying them of the Department's decisions in relation to individual projects. I am arranging for a copy of the list of new projects being supported for the first time in 1981–82 to be placed in the Library of the House.