Urban Regeneration Agency

HC Deb 24 June 1993 vol 227 c247W

Mr. Atkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the selection of a chief executive for the Urban Regeneration Agency.

Mr. Gummer

Lord Walker of Worcester, as chairman-designate of the URA, has selected Mr. David Taylor, currently the managing director of AMEC Developments Ltd., to be the agency's first chief executive. Mr. Taylor has been chosen in open competition from a field of 178 applicants. He will bring to the agency a wealth of experience in regeneration gained during his private sector career. Subject to enactment of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Bill, he will be appointed chief executive by the agency when established later this year.