HC Deb 13 November 1991 vol 198 c559W
Mr. Livsey

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will indicate, following the Chancellor's autumn statement on the allocation of Welsh Office expenditure for 1992–93, how much of the block has been allocated to(a) health, (b) education, (c) housing, (d) the environment and (e) tourism; and what were the comparable allocations to these headings for 1991–92.

Mr. David Hunt

I have already announced that I have secured an extra £80 million per year for mandatory home renovation grants. This means that, within the £5,810 million available for Welsh Office programmes in 1992–93, total provision for these grants will be £143 million—sufficient to bring over 11,500 dwellings up to the required fitness standard.

I shall be making further announcements about the allocation of resources to the remainder of my block programmes in due course, and full details will be published in next year's departmental report. The original allocations of provision for 1991–92 were set out in this year's report, Cm 1516.

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