asked the Secretary of State for the Environment which projects have been approved for grant aid under the main phase of urban programme circular No. 17.
My right hon. Friend has approved 396 capital and non-capital schemes for urban aid to begin this year in 89 local authorities. Of the £10 million available, about £6 million will go on capital projects, £2 million on the running costs of these projects and £2 million on non-capital projects. This is in addition to the £16 million for schemes submitted separately by the seven inner city partnership areas.Voluntary organisations will be involved in the running of 180 of the approved projects worth about £3·8 million and at least 104 of the schemes worth about £2·8 million will be of specific benefit to ethnic minority groups. I have placed a list of all the approved projects in the Library of the House.