HC Deb 10 May 2001 vol 368 cc259-60W
Barbara Follett

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when he will respond to the Environment, Transport and Regional Affair's Committee's Fifth report of Session 2000–01, HC 36, on Delivering Sustainable Waste Management. [160820]

availability of previously developed urban land from region to region and (b) other considerations of environmental capacity. [160795]

Ms Beverley Hughes

The criteria used by the regional co-ordination unit does not specifically include these considerations, which properly fall to the Departments and others putting forward proposals.

Mr. Brake

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 26 April 2001,Official Report, columns 313–15W, on regional impact assessments, if the large number of other initiatives referred to included (a) regional selective assistance and (b) funding for the regional development agencies. [160797]

Ms Beverley Hughes

The regional co-ordination unit has not assessed any initiatives which have included regional selective assistance or funding for the regional development agencies. The initiatives looked at were proposals for new area based activity.