§ Mr. MartlewTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will make a statement on light dues. [155949]
§ Mr. HillI am pleased to announce that the light dues rates will remain the same for 2001–02.
Following four years of stability, the current rates were set in 1997 when charges were reduced by an average of 4.6 per cent. The General Lighthouse Authorities deserve
£ million Programme 1996–971 2000–012 Education Standards Fund 46 78 New Deal for Schools capital3 — 450 Health programmes 24 21 New Deal for Communities3 — 120 Air Quality and Smoke Control Supplementary Credit Approvals 3 3 Estates renewal 30 81 Estate Action 252 68 Land reclamation 51 6 Crime Fighting Fund and schools intervention3 — 48 PFI credits for joined up schemes3 — 30 Invest to Save Budget3 — 39 Capital Modernisation Fund3 — 340 European Structural Funds4 116 212 Single Regeneration Budget (Challenge Fund)/SRB5 265 814 City Challenge6 224 — DCMS/Wolfson Public Libraries Challenge Fund3 — 2 Combined Conservation Area Partnership Schemes and Heritage Economic Regeneration Scheme 12 5 Innovative transport project3 — 1 Rural Bus Challenge3 — 20 Total 1,023 2,338 1 Actual outturn 2 Provisional 3 Programmes did not exist in 1996–97 4 Outturn for both years 5 In the SRB, local regeneration partnerships, which normally include local authority partners, were able to bid for resources under individual bidding rounds (1–6) 6 Programme ended in 1998. In addition £18.5 million has been allocated to fund the development of new and the ex tension of existing neighbourhood warden schemes.