To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has any plans to announce supplementary housing revenue account allocations or additional capital consent for district councils within the current financial year; and if he will make a statement.

[holding answer 2 June 1992]: Yes. Supplementary housing capital allocations will be made later in the year to authorities incurring expenditure under the provisions for assistance to owners of defective housing in the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987. Other supplementary housing capital allocations will be considered if resources become available. In addition, councils in former coal-mining areas eligible to receive RECHAR grants have been advised that non-housing supplementary consents will be issued matching RECHAR receipts from the European Commission.