HC Deb 13 May 1985 vol 79 cc22-4W
Ms Harman

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will list the local authorities which have been granted money under the urban aid scheme for nursery schemes for each year since 1979, giving the number for each authority:

(2) if he will list the number of schemes approved for urban aid to local authorities for the provision of nurseries in each of the years from 1979 to 1983;

(3) if he will list the amounts of money granted to local authorities from urban aid for nurseries for each of the years from 1979 to 1983, expressed in terms of 1979 prices.

Sir George Young

Information is not available in the form requested. In 1984–85, however, a total of 398 nursery schemes costing around £13.8 million were funded under the urban programme in 90 local authorities. A list of these authorities, and the number of nursery schemees supported in each, is as follows:

Local Authority Number of Nursery projects funded
Partnerships
Birmingham 17
Hackney 8
Islington 3
Lambeth 7
Liverpool 16
Manchester/Salford 16
Newcastle/Gateshead 8
Sub-total 75
Programme Authorities:
Blackburn 9
Bolton 1
Bradford 8
Brent 7
Coventry 7
Hammersmith 10
Hull 2
Knowsley 6
Leeds 4
Leicester
Middlesborough
N. Tyneside
Nottingham 1
Oldham 9
Rochdale 7
Sandwell 5
Sheffield 2
S. Tyneside 1
Sunderland
Tower Hamlets 2
Wandsworth 10
Wirral
Wolverhampton 6
Sub-total 97
Traditional Urban Programme: London Boroughs
Barnet 3
Camden 2
Croydon 3
Ealing 4
Enfield 2
Greenwich 1
Haringey 13
Hounslow 5
Kensington and Chelsea 4
Lewisham 1
Newham 14
Southwark 4
Sutton 1
Waltham Forest 5
ILEA 1
Sub-total 63
Traditional Urban Programme: District Councils
Bristol 1
Bury 4
Clderdale 1
Doncaster 2
Dudley 3
Kirklees 6
Rotherham 4
St. Helens 4
Sefton 8
Solihull 2
Stockport 4
Tameside 4
Trafford 2
Wakefield 1
Walsall 6
Wigan 4

Local Authority Number of Nursery projects funded
Sub-total 56
Traditional Urban Programme: County Councils
Avon 4
Bedfordshire 1
Cambridgeshire 2
Cheshire 2
Cleveland 9
Cornwall 1
Cumbria 2
Derbyshire 9
Devon 2
Dorset 2
Durham 8
Essex 2
Hampshire 9
Hereford and Worcester 1
Hertfordshire 7
Kent 5
Lancashire 16
Leicestershire 3
Nottinghamshire 1
Northamptonshire 1
Northumberland 1
North Yorkshire 2
Oxfordshire 2
Shropshire 4
Staffordshire 4
K 1
Warwickshire 6
Sub-total 107
Urban Programme—Grand total 398