To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a table of expenditure from his Department on urban development corporations and other forms of public support to urban development corporations in 1989–90, showing separately his Department's grant to urban development corporations and the total cost to the Exchequer of forms of tax reliefs available to urban development corporation areas, with the figures to be shown separately for each urban development corporation.

Public funding for urban development corporations in 1989–90 was comprised entirely of Departmental grant-in-aid, set out in the table. Tax reliefs are not generally applied to corporation areas, but are available in enterprise zones, some of which overlap with urban development corporation areas. Data on reliefs just for these overlapping areas is not readily available.