HC Deb 21 March 1990 vol 169 c676W
73. Mr. Sumberg

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many city action teams and inner city task forces are now operating in the north-west of England.

Mr. David Hunt

City action teams have been set up in Liverpool, covering Liverpool and Birkenhead, and Manchester, covering the Manchester and Salford areas. Task forces are operating in Moss Side and Hulme, Manchester, and Granby and Toxteth, Liverpool. My hon. Friend the Minister for Industry announced on 28 February that a new task force will be established in Wirral and that the existing Rochdale task force will close later this year.