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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

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Mrs. Calton: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what criteria are applied to give an area neighbourhood renewal status; and where such areas are located, broken down by constituency. [84183] Mrs. Roche: The information requested is not held broken down by constituency but the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund is allocated to local authority districts that fall within the 50 most deprived authorities on any of the six district level summary measures of the ward level Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD 2000). The six measures are: Income scale--the number of people experiencing income deprivation Employment scale--the number of people experiencing employment deprivation Local Concentration--tells us how severe deprivation is in each authorities `hot spots' of deprivation Extent--the percentage of each district's population that live in one of the 10 per cent. most deprived wards in England The `average scores' and `average ranks' measures are the average level of deprivation across the entire district. This brings in a total of 81 authorities. In addition, there are transitional arrangements in place for seven other authorities that were among the 50 most deprived on the previous measure of deprivation, but which do not appear among the 50 most deprived authorities on the IMD 2000. The following lists the 88 authorities currently receiving NRF funding. Local authorities in receipt of NRF Hackney Hastings Tower Hamlets Derwentside Newham Hyndburn Manchester Stoke-on-Trent Knowsley North Tyneside Easington Wirral Liverpool Rotherham Middlesbrough Burnley Islington South Tyneside Hartlepool Southwark Halton Nottingham Blackburn with Darwen Doncaster Kingston upon Hull, City of Leicester Sandwell Walsall Wear Valley Barrow-in-Furness Redcar and Cleveland Newcastle upon Tyne Wolverhampton Sunderland Salford Haringey Barnsley Pendle Rochdale Gateshead Mansfield Camden Great Yarmouth Wansbeck Birmingham St. Helens Oldham Stockton-on-Tees Bolsover Bradford Bolton Blackpool Sefton Preston Greenwich Sheffield Kerrier Coventry Penwith Wakefield Derby Sedgefield Leeds Waltham Forest Barking and Dagenham Lewisham Brent Lambeth Ashfield Allerdale Bristol, City of Wigan Plymouth Luton Kirklees Enfield Westminster Hammersmith and Fulham Kensington and Chelsea Tameside Brighton and Hove Portsmouth Dudley Southampton Ealing Croydon Lincoln Wandsworth

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

395 c887-9W;395 c885-7W; 84183

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Disadvantaged Community development Finance Local government

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