§ Mr. EnrightTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give full details of the nature of the transitional arrangements referred to in his statement of 17 February,Official Report, columns 22 to 37, on RECHAR.
§ Mr. Lilley[holding answer 28 February 1992]: An announcement will be made as soon as possible about the details of the transitional arrangements in the intervening period until 1993–94. Allowance has already been made in public expenditure plans for RECHAR-linked expenditure, but it has not been possible for RECHAR grants to be made in 1991–92 because of the delay to the Commission's approval of the programmes.
The transitional arrangements will include special arrangements for RECHAR to ensure that commensurate public expenditure cover is available to the relevant spending authorities for the element of their expenditure financed by the ERDF.