Written question asked by Lord Willis of Knaresborough (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 14 April 2003, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 29 April 2003. It was answered by Tony McNulty (Labour) on Tuesday, 29 April 2003 on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Question: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether the additional transitional funding for LASHG announced by his Department on 5th March is in addition to the £97m of Approved Development Programme announced in the Communities Plan on 5th February. - Inc figures.

Answer: Mr. Willis: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether the additional transitional funding for LASHG announced by his Department on 5 March 2003 is in addition to the £97million of Approved Development Programme announced in the Communities Plan on 5 February 2003. [109658] Mr. McNulty: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister announced an additional £111 million of LASHG transitional funding, to safeguard schemes that could have gone ahead in 2003-04. This is in addition to the £175 million announced in the Communities Plan. The additional resources will be found from within current departmental provision.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 109658; 404 c366W
Session: 2002-03
Subjects: Community development Finance Local government Social housing grant Approved development programme
Contains statistics: Yes
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