HC Deb 25 May 1984 vol 60 c588W
Mr. Craigen

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by local authority those individual project applications under the urban programme in Scotland which were returned, indicating the projected capital and revenue implications for 1984–85.

Mr. Ancram

The list of projects is lengthy. I am sending a copy to the hon. Member and placing two copies in the Libary of the House.

If all the projects had been approved and expenditure incurred in the time scale proposed in the application forms, expenditure on these projects in 1984–85 would have amounted to about £11 million capital and £4 million current.

Mr. Craigen

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the outturn of the urban programme in Scotland for the year 1983–84.

Mr. Ancram

Outturn figures for 1983–84 are not yet available. Provisional returns from local authorities, together with departmental records, suggest a figure in the region of £29 million.

Mr. Craigen

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if there has been a reallocation of the reduced sum in the urban programme for 1984–85.

Mr. Ancram

Urban programme funds are allocated by grant offers on specific projects, and the question of reallocation does not therefore arise. The total amount of grant payable to any authority for expenditure in 1984–85 is the aggregate of all such relevant offers.

Mr. Craigen

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what representations he has had about the effect on areas of deprivation of the reduction in the allocation of the urban programme for 1984–85; and if he will review the allocations.

Mr. Ancram

I have received representations from a number of hon. Members, local authorities, voluntary bodies and individuals expressing concern at the level of resources for the urban programme in 1984–85, and the resultant impact on particular new projects and those intended to benefit from them. I will keep under review the scope for approving expenditure in 1984–85 on new projects, which is now constrained principally by the amount of capital expenditure originally programmed for 1983–84 but which will in practice fall in 1984–85.