asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, further to his answer of 27 February to the hon. Member for Mid-Staffordshire, Official Report, column 437, regarding the number of schemes for which derelict land grants have been paid in Staffordshire for the last five years, if he will publish in the Official Report full details of the schemes which have attracted a grant in the Mid-Staffordshire parliamentary constituency.

Statistics of derelict land grant totals for whole local authority areas are readily available. To produce similar totals for parliamentary constituencies which cover only parts of several local authorities would require disproportionate expenditure and would also divert staff from the priority task of processing current applications. I hope that the proposed computerisation of derelict land grant records will enable us to provide a better statistical service in the future.

£ million
	Cash terms HIP allocation expenditure		Real terms (1985–86 prices) HIP allocation expenditure
1978–79	47·685	47·301	89·951	89·227
1979–80	54·068	56·059	87·275	90·489
1980–81	41·747	42·166	56·804	57·374
1981–82	22·454	30·247	27·810	37·461
1982–83	41·472	46·474	47·900	53·677
1983–84	33·916	49·820	37·490	55·070
1984–85	30·967	37·015	32·826	39·237
1985–86	26·779	43·024	26·779	43·024
1986–87	31·767	151·027	30·842	149·541
1987–88	29·492	—	27·598	—
1 Estimated by the authority.

The figures for total expenditure reflect the use the authority has been able to make of the various sources of capital spending power available to it including, since 1981–82 its receipts from the sale of assets.