§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will produce further guidance notes to footnote (7) to appendix 1 in his departmental report published on 9 March, when he has reached agreement with the local authorities and the other bodies eligible for funding for infrastructure projects from the European regional development fund on the split between allocation to local authorities and the other eligible bodies for the year 1995–96 to 1997–98, and if he will make a statement. [14762]
§ Mr. Redwood[holding answer 17 March 1995]: At no point does the Department agree with the various sponsors of ERDF projects any split between the allocations to local authorities and other eligible bodies. The distribution of the resources under the objective 2 and 5b programmes is made by the technical working groups of the monitoring committees on a project-by-project basis. Decisions are taken throughout the life of these programmes on the basis of agreed selection criteria.