HC Deb 26 October 1988 vol 139 c235W
Mr. Stern

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those local authorities that supplied information to his Department too late to qualify for inner area programme funding.

Mr. Trippier

Following a review in 1986, a total of 57 local authorities with the highest levels of urban deprivation were each invited to submit annual inner area programmes. All 57 authorities submitted programmes for 1988–89, and all have now been approved.