To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in the Official Report the criteria used in allocating grants to areas of deprivation; and if he will list those areas to which grants have been allocated.

Urban areas with levels of deprivation in the worst 10 per cent. in Scotland qualify for assistance under the urban programme. In the current year new grants have been allocated to a range of projects in all mainland regions except Borders and Highland regions. The eligible areas are listed on page 18 of "New Life for Urban Scotland" published on 29 March 1988.