§ Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her answer of 6 December 2001,Official Report, column 497W, on the Excellence in Cities Scheme, if she will list the towns and villages that will cover the 24 excellence clusters by September 2002; and where their funding will come from. [24383]
§ Mr. TimmsI have been asked to reply.
The 24 Excellence Clusters that will be working by September 2002 are:
- Barnet
- Bishop Auckland
- Coventry
- Crewe
- Croydon (Croydon and Thornton Heath)
- Derby
- Dewsbury and Batley (Dewsbury, Batley, Holmfirth and Heckmondwike)
- East Lancashire (Burnley and Nelson)
- High Wycombe (High Wycombe and Marlow)
- Hillingdon (Hillingdon, Hayes, Uxbridge and West Drayton)
- Huddersfield
- Lancaster
- Milton Keynes
- Norwich
- Peterborough
777W - Portsmouth (Portsmouth and Southsea)
- Shepway (Folkestone, Hythe and New Romney)
- Stockport
- Tameside (Ashton under Lyne, Hyde and Dukinfield)
- Tilbury and Chadwell (Tilbury, Grays and Stanford le Hope)
778W - Walsall (Walsall and Wednesbury)
- West Cumbria (Cleator Moor, Maryport, Whitehaven and Workington)
- West Lancashire (Skelmersdale and Ormskirk)
- Wigan.
Their funding comes from the DfES Standards Fund.
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