§ Mrs. Peacockasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) whether he will list in order of priority the projects submitted to his Department for approval for urban aid funding by Kirklees metropolitan council in each of the financial years since 1979;
(2) what was the total amount of urban aid funding allocated to Kirklees metropolitan council in each of the financial years since 1979.
§ Sir George YoungProjects submitted for approval for urban aid funding are normally approved according to local authority priority markings, subject to the availability of resources and to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State being satisfied that the proposals conform to the criteria set out in the urban programme circular relating to the financial year in which approval is sought. Projects submitted by Kirklees metropolitan council were approved as follows:
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Project Capital Revenue 1979–80 Springwood Nursery 24,920 Mount Pleasant Nursery Class 21,020 Longwood Nursery Class 13,020 Holiday Projects 5,035 — 1980–81 Cambridge Road Day Nursery 30,000 Nursery Class Field Land Infants School 22,300 Area Organiser 2,225 Nursery Class Warwick Road J & I School 14,650 Nursery Unit at Savile Town Infants School 4,925 Nursery Unit at Birkby Infants School 5,447 Degraded lane off Central Street/Wormald Street, Dewsbury 2,000 Community Service Volunteers 5,080 Birkby/Fartown Community Centre 65,000 Holiday Projects 9,215 1981–82 Immigrant Centre, Batley Carr, Dewsbury 40,000 Ashbrow Nursery 22,800 Rawthorpe Nursery 39,500 Woodhouse Nursery 20,400 Neighbourhood Warden Scheme 21,700 Age Concern—Clerical Assistant 2,698 Home Care Scheme 2,640 Ethnic Minority Provision for Women and Children (Fartown Centre) 10,500 Home Visiting Service for Families with Pre-School Handicapped Children 23,670 Stile Common Nursery Unit 20,000 27,700 Charities Information Bureau 9,300 Holiday Projects 10,550 1982–83 Bracknell/Sheepridge Community Centre, Huddersfield 82,350 8,400 Bracknell Local Authority Service Point 12,200 22,500 Birkby Community Centre & Self Aid-Scheme 70,000 25,777 Educational Visitor Windybank Estate 7,976 Inner Huddersfield Industrial Regeneration Area 100,000 Chickenley Community Centre 120,000 8,400 Batley Children's Centre 9,951 Taylor Hill Children's Centre 17,508 Fieldworkers—Pre-School Playgroups 51,000 Fenton House Group 10,700 3,550 Huddersfield Women's Aid 26,620 Welfare Rights Officer 7,513 Kirklees Youth Action 24,300 Community Relations Committee Fieldworker 1,918 Age Concern 31,500 Batley Council for Voluntary Services 12,000 Library Service to Asian Community 10,000 40,200 Community Supervision Centre 22,000 45,000 Unemployed Workers' Centre 11,000 Additional capital contributions to Community Centres 202,980 Harambee Association 27,100 — Huddersfield West Indian Association 5,000 22,000 Community Centre for Asians in Batley 20,000 — Holiday Projects 19,800 — South Kirklees CRC 3,450 — 1983–84 Industrial Nursery Units Scar Lane, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield — 12,270 Millgate Improvement—access improvement 62,000 — Day Nursery, Dewsbury — 50,000 Huddersfield Town Farm 3,500 7,500 English Teaching for Ethnic Minorities — 3,000 Asian Advice Worker (CAB Batley & Dewsbury) — 9,345 MIND in Dewsbury 5,000 15,711 New Ambulance for disabled persons 15,000 —
Project Capital Revenue Fairfield Therapeutic Swimming Pool 53,700 — Kirklees Childminder Association — 1,388 "Paired Reading"—to improve reading skills — 16,908 Holiday Projects 14,200 — 1984–85 Cheapside Mills Regeneration Scheme 57,500 — Savile Street Reconstruction 108,000 — Deighton Education Centre (Part Approval) 160,000 38,202 Disabled Information and Advice Line, 16,200 41,950 Huddersfield 550 Holiday Projects 11,690 — Savile Town Community Project 160,000 4,000 1985–86 Muslim Community Centre, Clare Hill, Huddersfield 100,000 4,090 Huddersfield Harambee Association — 19,114 SHARE (Self Help, Advice and Relief for parents of Handicapped People in North Kirklees) — 15,000 Portage Project—Home visiting scheme — 25,000 Deighton workshops 50,000 — Batley Enterprise Centre 90,000 — Holiday Projects 10,000 — These figures do not include projects in the Kirklees metropolitan district put forward by the former West Yorkshire metropolitan county council.
The total amount of urban aid funding allocated to Kirklees metropolitan council in each of the financial years since 1979 was:
Kirklees metropolitan council urban aid funding (including ongoing commitments) £ 1979–80 591,380 1980–81 779,100 1981–82 825,000 1982–83 1,624,330 1983–84 1,125,900 1984–85 1,396,440 1985–86 1,068,600 1986–87 *823,500 * estimated.