§ Mr. HindTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how much funding has been provided by the Government for derelict land reclamation in Liverpool in each of the last three years.
§ Mr. MoynihanThe information requested is as follows:
Approvals Amount £ 1986–87 26,015,011 1987–88 27,580,399 1988–89 25,203,412
§ Mr. HindTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how much funding has been provided by the Government through the Housing Corporation and local authorities to housing associations in Liverpool in each of the last three years.
§ Mr. ChopeOver the three-year period 1986–87 to 1988–89 the value of new housing association schemes approved by the Housing Corporation in Liverpool was as follows:
£ million Grant programme Actual Actual Forecast 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 Derelict land grant 3.010 1.061 0.552 Urban programme1 n/a 0.072 n/a Merseyside Development Corporation1 3.560 1.650 3.000 Urban regeneration grant/city grant1 2 nil 0.960 0.835 1 Includes expenditure on unused or waste land as well as derelict land. 2 Information does not relate solely to the costs of reclamation since grant is based on the total project costs including those of reclamation. Similar figures for 1989–90 are not yet available.
Comparable figures for schemes supported by Liverpool city council are not available but during the same period the council reported the following gross capital lending to housing associations:
Year Loans £ 1986–87 2,461,000 1987–88 2,125,000 1988–89 811,000