§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what is his most up-to-date estimate of the number of jobs(a) in construction and (b) in all other categories in the area administered by the London Docklands development corporation; and what were the equivalent numbers of jobs in the same area or the nearest area for which statistics are available in the last full year before London Docklands development corporation was set up;
(2) what is his most up-to-date estimate of the number of jobs currently in the area of the Merseyside development corporation in (a) construction and (b) all other categories; and what were the equivalent number of jobs in the same area or the nearest area for which statistics are available in the last full year for which statistics are available;
(3) what is the most up-to-date estimate available to him of the total number of jobs in (a) construction and (b) all other categories for areas administered by urban development corporations; and what were the nearest equivalent figures for the same areas in the last full year before those urban development corporations were set up.
§ Mr. Moynihan[holding answer 19 February 1990]: The information available is as follows:
769WThe UDCs in Bristol, central Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield, and Merseyside's extended area, were established during 1988–89. They had therefore not been in existence long enough, by March 1989, for the total number of jobs in their areas to have altered significantly.