HC Deb 27 January 1999 vol 324 cc303-4W
Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the six areas designated to receive assistance under the English Objective 5b Structural Fund Programme. [66901]

Mr. Morley

In England the six areas designated by the European Commission to receive assistance under the Objective 5b Structural Funds Programme areThe South West—Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and parts of Devon and Somerset; The Marches—most of Shropshire and parts of Hereford and Worcester; The Northern Uplands—parts of Lancashire, North Yorks, Durham, Cumbria and Northumberland: Lincolnshire—excluding the City of Lincoln and other mainly urban areas; East Anglia—the Fens, rural Norfolk and the Waveney Valley; and Midlands Uplands—the Peak District of Staffordshire and Derbyshire.