§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the voluntary organisations and associations which he consulted before reducing urban programme funding from the planned totals announced in February 1992.
§ Mr. Robin SquireIt became clear only at a very late stage of the public expenditure negotiations for 1993–94 that changes to the urban programme were necessary. Because of the timing of the decisions and the fact that the new arrangements for the urban programme formed part of the autumn statement, consultation was not possible. However, since then, I have met representatives of the voluntary sector to discuss the impact of these changes.
§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how much money has been given under the urban programme to projects aimed at the ethnic minorities for each of the last three years.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe information requested is as follows:
£ million 1990–91 27 1991–92 25 1992–93 28 Source: Department of the Environment departmental reports.
§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what proportion of urban programme schemes run by the voluntary sector were(a) capital projects and (b) revenue projects for the past three years.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThis information is not available.
§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will place in the Library the urban programme standard output measures for each authority for each of the last three years.
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§ Mr. Robin SquireIt is not our policy to publish output data for each individual authority under the urban programme. However, national output data for the urban programme are available in the Department's annual reports.