To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the projected number of jobs to be created by (a) the London Docklands development corporation and (b) the Merseyside development corporation.

No numbers were projected when these development corporations were set up. To March 1990, there had been a net gain of 29,000 permanent jobs in the London Docklands area and 4,200 in Merseyside's area.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many local people have secured jobs in the area of (a) London Docklands development area and (b) Merseyside development corporation since their introduction.

This information is not collected by Merseyside nor on a regular basis by London Docklands. However, a London Docklands survey in 1987 indicated that out of 42,000 then employed in the urban development area about a third were residents of the three dockland boroughs.