§ Mr. MansTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what support his Department is giving to encourage the Church and Church agencies to become more involved in inner-city regeneration.
§ Mr. NewtonWe have contributed £148.000 to Evangelical Enterprise and £6,000 to Church Action with the Unemployed towards their work for the urban priority areas, and £215,000 to the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility for a linking-up project at Manchester designed to develop church-based projects in inner-city areas. Church-sponsored projects in 10 task force areas have already been helped by task force funding.
We have also established a churches liaison group, which will advise and assist those both of Christian denominations and of other faiths who wish to develop co-ordinated schemes for action in the inner cities.