§ Mr. ColemanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what resources he is prepared to make available to Round 2 partnerships under the New Deal for Communities Programme. [159928]
§ Ms Beverley HughesI am delighted to announce that we have today offered the NDC Round 2 partnerships funding of over £1,100 million to implement their strategy for change. We have also made funding available to the remaining pathfinder partnership.
467WFollowing receipt of delivery plans in March, I am today allocating funding to the following 22 NDC partnerships:
£ million District Neighbourhood Funding award Hartlepool West Central Hartlepool 53.79 Sunderland East End and Hendon 53.89 Oldham Hathershaw and Fitton Hall 53.53 Rochdale Old Heywood 52.0 Salford Charlestown and Lower Kersal 53.0 Sheffield Burngreave 52.0 Doncaster Central Doncaster 52.0 Derby Derwent 38.0 Coventry Wood End, Henley Green and Manor Farm 54.0 Birmingham Aston 54.0 Wolverhampton All Saints and Blakenhall 53.5 Walsall Blakenall 52.0 Luton Marsh Farm 48.835 Plymouth Devonport 48.73 Southampton Thornhill 48.7 Brent South Kilburn 50.06 Islington Finsbury 52.92 Haringey Seven Sisters 50.12 Hammersmith and Fulham North Fulham 44.28 Lambeth Clapham Park 56.0 Lewisham New Cross 45.0 Birmingham Kings Norton 50.0 The remaining Round 2 partnership, Knowsley, will take advantage of the additional three months they were given at the end of Phase 2 to work on community involvement and strategic linkages with key agencies. The partnership will submit a Delivery Plan in June 2001 with an announcement to follow shortly after.
This brings the total resources allocated to NDC partnerships to just under £2,000 million over the next 10 years.