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Inner City Task Forces

Volume 210: debated on Tuesday 30 June 1992

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Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will provide a table of expenditure showing the cost of running each inner city task force for each year from 1987–88 (a) at current prices and (b) at 1987–88 prices;(2) if he will provide a table of expenditure on each inner city task force from his Department for each year from 1987–88

(a) at current prices and (b) at 1987–88 prices.

Mr. Robin Squire

The costs of running the inner city task forces and the overall expenditure of each for the period from 1989–90 to 1991–92 is set out in the following tables:

Table A: Running Costs
Task Force1989–901990–911991–92
Birmingham East86,480106,227129,724
Handsworth2,423622—
Bradford49,839132,629131,947
Bristol134,122111,64694,396
Coventry71,29382,74789,800
Derby—49,123122,345
Doncaster124,00750,497—
Hartlepool102,44694,41960,733
Hull——31,362
Leeds111,469143,97790,225
Leicester37,2862,435—
Liverpool68,348113,275126,871
London Deptford39,317109,227102,470
Hackney——12,685
North Peckham122,762177,092185,166
Spitalfields137,476150,046133,400
West London131,310144,690153,189
Manchester117,124134,939143,844
Middlesbrough76,02179,141110,586
Nottingham122,484133,138130,645
Preston57,91729—
Rochdale92,27248,533—
South Tyneside——16,302
Wirral—46,720126,858
Wolverhampton39,381——
All figures inclusive of capital costs of office machinery, furniture and supplies.
1991–92 figures include hard charges for DTI services.
Table B: Expenditure
Task force1989–901990–911991–92
Birmingham East1,469,3741,131,0411,193,486
Handsworth190,528622—
Bradford449,8082,069,9981,170,249
Bristol754,5832,120,7951,127,725
Coventry1,540,5121,015,5441,785,869
Derby—302.4611,268,963
Doncaster1,460,333628,601—
Hartlepool1,211,2231,415,387891,289
Hull——291,932
Leeds1,389,8181,106,183651,933
Leicester1,037,35332,068—
Liverpool659,0461,628,7211,942,868
London Deptford245,0251,780,2251,509,634
Hackney——785,125
North Peckham1,006,9051,435,6202,151,671
Spitalfields883,210974,6052,000,499
West London594,2361,439,3781,759,726
Manchester2,440,5932,206,2201,467,424
Middlesbrough787,3351,255,3311,745,020
Nottingham920,2251,176,2921,412,042

Task force

1989–90

1990–91

1991–92

Preston554,44928,606—
Rochdale842,665715,36252,745
South Tyneside——94,003
Wirral—597,0611,059,078
Wolverhampton1,082,06457,291—

Running costs apportioned to individual task forces before the financial year 1989–90 are not readily available. Figures are not available on a 1987–88 price basis. To provide this would incur disproportionate costs.

On 1 June 1992 financial responsibility for the task forces was transferred to my Department from the Department of Trade and Industry.

Mr. Mike O'Brien

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when the Government will reach a decision on allocating RECHAR funds to North Warwickshire borough; and how that will affect the standard spending assessment of the borough council.

Mr. Robin Squire

The northern Warwickshire RECHAR integrated development programme was approved by the European Commission on 26 February 1992. The decision on the allocation of RECHAR funds to north Warwickshire borough will not affect the council's SSA for 1992–93 or 1993–94.

Mr. Mike O'Brien

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many RECHAR projects have been agreed by the Government since 17 February 1991.

Mr. Mike O'Brien

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what decisions were reached by the RECHAR European regional development fund coordinating committee in respect of North Warwickshire and Nuneaton and Bedford borough projects on 11 June.

Mr. Robin Squire

There were no applications for ERDF grant for consideration at the meeting.