HC Deb 12 January 1999 vol 323 cc167-8W
Mr. Vaz

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will set out his proposals for a successor to city challenge. [63584]

Mr. Meale

The successor to City Challenge is the Single Regeneration Budget which began in 1994. Following the Comprehensive Spending Review my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister set out details of a refocused SRB in his Housing and Regeneration Policy statement on 22 July 1998.