HC Deb 28 April 1993 vol 223 c408W
Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 20 October 1992,Official Report, columns 283–84, what progress he has made in allocating the £2.8 million under the European regional development fund; how much of the expenditure has already been announced and for what purposes; and on what the residual amount will be spent.

Mr. David Hunt

I made it clear in my answer on 20 October 1992,Official Report, columns 283–84, that the £2.8 million to which the hon. Gentleman refers represents resources additional to the very substantial allocations already available from the European regional development fund under the industrial South Wales and RECHAR structural funds programmes. £1.61 million ERDF has already been committed to projects in the Betws and Taff Merthyr areas and the monitoring committees responsible for implementing these programmes will be asked to approve further projects to take up the whole of the available resources by the end of this year.