HC Deb 17 December 1992 vol 216 cc513-4W
Mr. Spellar

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what financial assistance will be given to local authorities who provide accommodation and other facilities to refugees from the former Yugoslavia.

Mr. Robin Squire

As announced by my hon. Friend the Member for Housing and Planning on 16 November,Official Report, column 54, we propose to make available a special grant to assist the small number of local authorities worst affected by the recent influx of displaced persons from the former Yugoslav republic. My Department will be writing to local authorities shortly in order to obtain information on which to base the grant.