§ Mr. Donald AndersonTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd, West (Mr. Thomas) of 1 December 1997,Official Report, columns 85–86, if he will make a statement on the level of publicly funded capital expenditure in the Swansea Council area in each of the past three years. [20007]
§ Mr. Win GriffithsNot all this information is held centrally but the principal sums made available or committed over the past three years totalling £75.8 million were:
£million European Regional Development Fund 5.0 Welsh Development Agency 11.7 Transport Grant/Supplementary Credit Approval 36.4 SportsLot 1.3 Welsh Arts Lottery Fund 1.4 Strategic Development Scheme 12.6 Wales Tourist Board 0.3 CADW 0.1 Heritage Lottery 0.6 Top Slice Housing Supplementary Credit Approval 6.4 These figures exclude sums made available through basic credit approvals, expenditure on further and higher education and more general housing provision.