§ Mr. Raffan asked the Secretary of State for Wales when he will announce the capital allocations for individual local authorities.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsOn 3 December I announced that the total of capital allocations for 1986–87 in Wales would be £323 million. Authorities have also been informed of the allocations I have made for housing (£141 million) and for projects of regional or national importance or special projects (£10 million). The major remaining component of local authority capital allocations is distributed on a formula basis. These allocations together with those for major road schemes will be notified today. In total they amount to almost £150 million. Authorities will then have the information they need to plan their detailed capital programmes for the coming year.
Details of the allocations for individual authorities have been placed in the Library. Allocations for schemes under the Urban Programme, totalling £23 million, will be announced early in the new year.