To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list all those local authorities which are eligible to bid for a share of the £2 million credit approvals he has announced for low-cost rural housing.

The rural housing programme for 1991–92 totals £50 million of supplementary credit approvals, not £2 million. All English local authorities, except for London boroughs and the City of London, metropolitan district councils, and other districts designated under the urban programme, are eligible to submit bids under the programme.