HC Deb 12 February 1993 vol 218 c830W
Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 8 February,Official Report, column 522, if he will place in the Library the information subsequent to the 1981 census which was used to amend the criteria for urban areas eligible to apply for city challenge.

Mr. Howard

Information on unemployment levels and derelict land was used to inform the selection of urban priority areas subsequent to the 1981 census. Both sets of information were published; unemployment data in the regular statistical series from the Department of Employment and derelict land from the Department of the Environment's survey—"Survey of Derelict Land in England 1982, DOE 1984".