asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how much of the additional £25 million from the urban programme to assist the inner urban problems of the new areas for special attention will go to Middlesbrough; and for how many years it will be allocated.
I announced to the House on 8th November that outside the partnership areas we had identified 15 local authorities whose inner urban problems merited special attention. These autho-
county area. It is too early to provide information for the current financial year.
rities, of which Middlesbrough is one, are to share £25 million annually from 1979–80 onwards from the expanded urban programme. Precise allocations have not yet been decided, but each authority will receive between £1 million and £2 million a year. Allocations will be for three years initially and will be rolled forward annually.