To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the level of publicly funded capital expenditure in the Cardiff County Council area in (a) 1995–96 and (b) 1996–97; and what's the planned expenditure for 1997–98. [17575]

These figures are not held centrally but the principal sums made available or committed over the past three years, totalling £376.4 million, include the following:

	£ million
CBDC	232.0
ERDF	9.5
WDA	2.5
Transport grant	10.3
Millennium Commission	73.0
SportsLot	13.9
Welsh Arts Lottery Fund	17.3
SDS/Welsh Capital Challenge	9.4
Wales Tourist Board	0.7
CADW	0.3
Heritage Lottery	0.4
Top Slice housing SCA	7.1

These figures exclude sums made available through basic credit approvals, expenditure on further and higher education and more general housing provision.