§ Mr. Pendryasked the Secretary of State for the Environment why, in allocating £30 million of 1986–87 housing investment programme allocation for works under the Housing Defects Act 1984, no local authority in the north-west was given anything.
§ Sir George YoungThe need for expenditure by local authorities under the Housing Defects Act is taken into account in the generalised needs index. But in recognition of the needs of those regions containing authorities likely to face particularly large obligations under the Act in 1986–87, £30 million was allocated to the regional level outside the GNI. No such separate allocation was considered justified for the north-west region.