§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list all the projects funded by derelict land grant in (a) the west midlands and (b) Birmingham in the last three years, in the same form as the answer relating to Wales given to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones) on 16 February, Official Report, column 452.
§ Mr. John PattenI understand that the answer given by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales related to 109 schemes and involved considerable effort to extract. I regret that I can only repeat that the hon. Gentleman's request for details of the 609 schemes for which derelict land grant was applied for in the west midlands, over the last three years, would involve disproportionate expenditure and would divert staff from the priority task of processing current applications. However, the proposed introduction of computerised records should in due course enable us to answer such requests more readily.
104Wuniversities of implementing for clinical academic staff the pay award recommended by the Doctors and Dentists Review Body compared with the cost in 1987–87 of the pay settlement for non-clinical academic staff.
The net effect of these two changes is a reduction as follows: