HC Deb 21 March 1990 vol 169 c681W
Mr. Hind

To 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. Moynihan

The information requested is as follows:

Approvals Amount £
1986–87 26,015,011
1987–88 27,580,399
1988–89 25,203,412

Mr. Hind

To 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. Chope

Over 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