asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement about the sixth meeting of the Liverpool inner city partnership committee held at the Town Hall on Friday 2 November.

This was a helpful meeting. Matters discussed included inner city policy developments in the light of my statement of 14 September; the current partnership programme, in which I suggested the appointment of a three-man team to evaluate progress; the programme for 1980–83; and development land. On this last item, we agreed to publish a report on vacant and under-used land prepared for the partnership by Liverpool city council; and charged a group of officials with tackling obstacles preventing the early development of the land.