To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those areas in receipt of assisted or development area status, together with their working population.
1 have been asked to reply.The following is the information:
| Assisted Area Working Populations (April 1991) | ||
| Assisted Area Status | Travel-to-work Area | Workforce |
| South West | ||
| IA | Bodmin and Liskeard | 28,793 |
| IA | Bude | 8,094 |
| IA | Cinderford and Ross-on-Wye | 30,241 |
| Assisted Area Status | Travel-to-work Area | Workforce |
| DA | Falmouth | 14,843 |
| DA | Helston | 9,247 |
| DA | Newquay | 12,946 |
| DA | Penzance and St. Ives | 23,425 |
| IA | Plymouth | 147,884 |
| DA | Redruth and Camborne | 24,910 |
| West Midlands | ||
| IA | Birmingham | 803,305 |
| IA | Coventry and Hinckley | 269,332 |
| IA | Dudley and Sandwell | 299,360 |
| IA | Kidderminster | 47,174 |
| IA | Telford and Bridgnorth | 85,166 |
| IA | Walsall | 172,542 |
| IA | Wolverhampton | 151,975 |
| East Midlands | ||
| DA | Corby | 38,346 |
| IA | Gainsborough | 14,460 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | ||
| IA | Barnsley | 84,202 |
| IA | Bradford | 252,381 |
| IA | Doncaster | 115,628 |
| IA | Grimsby | 88,763 |
| IA | Hull | 222,670 |
| DA | Rotherham and Mexborough | 112,095 |
| DA | Scunthorpe | 68,932 |
| IA | Sheffield | 295,726 |
| DA | Whitby | 10,643 |
| North West | ||
| IA | Accrington and Rossendale | 60,224 |
| IA | Blackburn | 73,490 |
| IA | Bolton and Bury | 205,719 |
| DA | Liverpool | 485,553 |
| IA | Manchester | 823,726 |
| IA | Oldham | 98,289 |
| IA | Rochdale | 71,603 |
| DA | Widnes and Runcorn | 63,752 |
| DA | Wigan and St. Helens | 192,172 |
| DA | Wirral and Chester | 229,477 |
| Northern | ||
| DA | Bishop Auckland | 46,281 |
| IA | Darlington | 58,014 |
| IA | Durham | 69,686 |
| DA | Hartlepool | 40,488 |
| DA | Middlesbrough | 140,241 |
| IA | Morpeth and Ashington | 54,398 |
| DA | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 395,649 |
| DA | South Tyneside | 56,603 |
| DA | Stockton-on-Tees | 84,814 |
| DA | Sunderland | 177,886 |
| DA | Workington | 33,752 |
| Wales | ||
| DA | Aberdare | 23,428 |
| IA | Bangor and Caernarfon | 35,256 |
| DA | Blaenau Gwent and Abergavenny | 37,587 |
| IA | Bridgend | 63,515 |
| IA | Cardiff | 231,791 |
| DA | Cardigan | 10,727 |
| IA | Fishguard | 4,577 |
| IA | Haverfordwest | 23,496 |
| DA | Holyhead | 21,972 |
| DA | Lampeter and Aberaeron | 8,254 |
| IA | Llanelli | 36,218 |
| DA | Merthyr and Rhymney | 58,740 |
| DA | Neath and Port Talbot | 45,537 |
| IA | Newport | 96,088 |
| IA | Pontypool and Cwmbran | 46,019 |
| DA | Pontypridd and Rhondda | 72,691 |
| IA | Porthmadoc and Ffestiniog | 8,844 |
| IA | Pwllheli | 8,493 |
| DA | Shotton, Flint and Rhyl | 93,693 |
| Assisted Area Status | Travel-to-work Area | Workforce |
| DA | South Pembrokeshire | 16,514 |
| IA | Swansea | 119,563 |
| DA | Wrexham | 60,645 |
| Scotland | ||
| IA | Alloa | 18,771 |
| DA | Arbroath | 11,426 |
| IA | Ayr | 55,447 |
| IA | Badenoch | 5,623 |
| DA | Bathgate | 53,122 |
| IA | Campbeltown | 4,887 |
| DA | Cumnock and Sanquhar | 15,570 |
| DA | Dumbarton | 32,472 |
| DA | Dundee | 100,479 |
| IA | Dunfermline | 54,846 |
| IA | Dunoon and Bute | 11,493 |
| IA | Falkirk | 68,369 |
| IA | Forres | 3,715 |
| IA | Girvan | 4,549 |
| DA | Glasgow | 664,038 |
| DA | Greenock | 42,758 |
| IA | Invergordon and Dingwall | 15,320 |
| DA | Irvine | 60,260 |
| DA | Kilmarnock | 35,135 |
| IA | Kirkcaldy | 67,663 |
| DA | Lanarkshire | 169,659 |
| IA | Lochaber | 9,714 |
| IA | Newton Stewart | 4,499 |
| IA | Skye and Wester Ross | 9,091 |
| IA | Stewartry | 9,563 |
| IA | Stranraer | 9,139 |
| IA | Sutherland | 5,545 |
| IA | Western Isles | 12,867 |
| IA | Wick | 5,440 |
Notes:
(1) The work force estimates are the sum of: estimated employees in employment; the unemployed; the self-employed; the armed forces; participants on work-related schemes.
(2) There are two forms of assisted area status; a more intense form, development area (DA) and a less intense, intermediate area (IA).
(3) The building block for the assisted areas map is the travel-to-work area (TTWA), which is the best approximation available to a self-contained labour market. TTWA boundaries do not always correspond to regional boundaries, so some of the TTWAs are listed above under one region, while in fact belonging to several regions.
(4) Only half of the Manchester TTWA has assisted area status, but the work force reported above relates to the whole TTWA. This is because of the lack of availability of post-census work force data for areas smaller than TTWAs.