§ Mr. PatnickTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what resources will be available for local authorities in the urban programme in 1989–90; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. TrippierI am today announcing initial urban programme resource allocations for 1989–90, totalling over £245 million. The resources will be allocated to the 57 urban programme partnership and programme authorities. The money will be used to support projects which will encourage economic development and environmental improvements to rebuild confidence and encourage private investment in those areas.
The urban programme is one of the Government's range of programmes to help revitalise our inner cities. It 216W complements the Department of the Environment's other urban initiatives including the urban development corporations, city grant and derelict land grant. Together these programmes will provide £674 million for inner city regeneration in 1989–90.
The urban programme allocations made today are provisional; formal allocations are made after inner area programmes have been assessed and approved. Allocations will not be confirmed until authorities have provided a satisfactory annual report on achievements through the UP in 1987–88. Additional resources sometimes become available for redistribution in the course of the year which may lead to outturn being different from these initial allocations.
I attach considerable importance to the improvement in the management of the urban programme and am grateful to authorities for their continuing commitment to and achievements in the urban programme management initiative.
The allocations to individual authorities are as follows.
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£ million Region and Authority Initial allocation 1989–90 Northern Newcastle/Gateshead 17.061 Hartlepool 1.750 Langbaurgh 1.750 Middlesbrough 5.349 North Tyneside 3.400 South Tyneside 4.700 Stockton 1.368 Sunderland 5.019 North West Manchester/Salford 21.773 Blackburn 4.000 Bolton 3.625 Burnley 1.891 Oldham 3.583 Preston 2.120 Rochdale 3.545 Wigan 2.366 Merseyside Liverpool 19.353 Halton 1.325 Knowsley 3.768 St. Helens 1.662 Sefton 1.429 Wirral 3.253 West Midlands Birmingham 23.000 Coventry 4.575 Dudley 1.340 Sandwell 4.407 Walsall 1.595 Wolverhampton 4.867 The Wrekin 0.680 East Midlands Derby 1.480 Leicester 4.750 Nottingham 5.120 Yorkshire and Humberside Barnsley 1.598 Bradford 4.500 Doncaster 1.793 Hull 4.636 Kirklees 0.889 Leeds 4.315 Rotherham 1.794
Region and Authority Initial allocation 1989–90 Sheffield 5.059 London Hackney 8.034 Islington 8.717 Lambeth 9.932 Brent 3.332 Greenwich 0.970 Hammersmith and Fulham 3.330 Haringey 2.650 Kensington and Chelsea 1.775 Lewisham 1.700 Newham 2.589 Southwark 2.494 Tower Hamlets 4.373 Wandsworth 3.183 South West Bristol 1.373 Plymouth 1.003