§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will provide a table of expenditure showing the cost of running each inner city task force for each year from 1987–88(a) at current prices and (b) at 1987–88 prices;
(2) if he will provide a table of expenditure on each inner city task force from his Department for each year from 1987–88 (a) at current prices and (b) at 1987–88 prices.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe costs of running the inner city task forces and the overall expenditure of each for the period from 1989–90 to 1991–92 is set out in the following tables:
Table A: Running Costs Task Force 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 Birmingham East 86,480 106,227 129,724 Handsworth 2,423 622 — Bradford 49,839 132,629 131,947 Bristol 134,122 111,646 94,396 Coventry 71,293 82,747 89,800 Derby — 49,123 122,345 Doncaster 124,007 50,497 — Hartlepool 102,446 94,419 60,733 Hull — — 31,362 Leeds 111,469 143,977 90,225 Leicester 37,286 2,435 — Liverpool 68,348 113,275 126,871 London Deptford 39,317 109,227 102,470 Hackney — — 12,685 North Peckham 122,762 177,092 185,166 Spitalfields 137,476 150,046 133,400 West London 131,310 144,690 153,189 Manchester 117,124 134,939 143,844 Middlesbrough 76,021 79,141 110,586 Nottingham 122,484 133,138 130,645 Preston 57,917 29 — Rochdale 92,272 48,533 — South Tyneside — — 16,302 Wirral — 46,720 126,858 Wolverhampton 39,381 — — All figures inclusive of capital costs of office machinery, furniture and supplies. 1991–92 figures include hard charges for DTI services. 478W
Table B: Expenditure Task force 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 Birmingham East 1,469,374 1,131,041 1,193,486 Handsworth 190,528 622 — Bradford 449,808 2,069,998 1,170,249 Bristol 754,583 2,120,795 1,127,725 Coventry 1,540,512 1,015,544 1,785,869 Derby — 302.461 1,268,963 Doncaster 1,460,333 628,601 — Hartlepool 1,211,223 1,415,387 891,289 Hull — — 291,932 Leeds 1,389,818 1,106,183 651,933 Leicester 1,037,353 32,068 — Liverpool 659,046 1,628,721 1,942,868 London Deptford 245,025 1,780,225 1,509,634 Hackney — — 785,125 North Peckham 1,006,905 1,435,620 2,151,671 Spitalfields 883,210 974,605 2,000,499 West London 594,236 1,439,378 1,759,726 Manchester 2,440,593 2,206,220 1,467,424 Middlesbrough 787,335 1,255,331 1,745,020 Nottingham 920,225 1,176,292 1,412,042
Task force 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 Preston 554,449 28,606 — Rochdale 842,665 715,362 52,745 South Tyneside — — 94,003 Wirral — 597,061 1,059,078 Wolverhampton 1,082,064 57,291 — Running costs apportioned to individual task forces before the financial year 1989–90 are not readily available. Figures are not available on a 1987–88 price basis. To provide this would incur disproportionate costs.
On 1 June 1992 financial responsibility for the task forces was transferred to my Department from the Department of Trade and Industry.
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when the Government will reach a decision on allocating RECHAR funds to North Warwickshire borough; and how that will affect the standard spending assessment of the borough council.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe northern Warwickshire RECHAR integrated development programme was approved by the European Commission on 26 February 1992. The decision on the allocation of RECHAR funds to north Warwickshire borough will not affect the council's SSA for 1992–93 or 1993–94.
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many RECHAR projects have been agreed by the Government since 17 February 1991.
§ Mr. Robin SquireNone.
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what decisions were reached by the RECHAR European regional development fund coordinating committee in respect of North Warwickshire and Nuneaton and Bedford borough projects on 11 June.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThere were no applications for ERDF grant for consideration at the meeting.