§ Mr. StreeterTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he is yet able to inform the House of the final outcome of the negotiations with the European Communities on the designation under the structural funds of objective 2 and 5(b) areas.
§ Mr. Sainsbury[pursuant to his reply, 13 January 1994, Official Report, columns 252–54]: The Commission has now announced that it has decided to make no changes to the initial list of areas it announced on 21 December. I have placed a copy of the final list, which includes details where appropriate at ward level, in the Library of the House. It will appear in the Official Journal in due course.
The Commission has also announced that the indicative allocation to the United Kingdom for objective 2 for the period 1994–1996 is 2,142 million ecu.
I hope to be able to provide the final objective 5(b) list in the near future when it has been finally decided by the Commission.