Immigration (Hansard, 3 March 1994)

§ Mr. Madden
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his letter dated 25 January, concerning the application of Mr. Marendra Kumar Patel (Ref. P380877/2 (S). PO 31329/93) to Her Majesty's post in Bombay to join his wife in the United Kingdom, when Mr. Patel's wife in the United Kingdom is to be interviewed; and if he will arrange for her to be interviewed close to her home in Bradford.

§ Mr. Charles Wardle
Mrs. Patel will be invited for interview in March. The interview will be conducted by the immigration office at Leeds Bradford airport.
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§ Mr. Charles Wardle
Four new safer cities projects were set up in 1991, and a further 10—which were announced in December 1993—are currently being established. Announcements on further projects are planned for 1994–95.

§ Mr. Jim Cunningham
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many new safer cities programmes were discontinued through a lack of funding in each year since 1991.

§ Mr. Charles Wardle
None.
Sixteen of the original 20 projects will, as planned, cease to receive Government funding in March 1994 in order to release funds for a second phase of the programme in up to 40 new areas which have not yet benefited from safer cities funding.