When I spoke about much the same kind of problem, I made it clear that, to find the resources for the Inner City Crisis, the Secretary of State would do better to seek to enter into partnership with the private sector and to attract the savings of the institutions and pension funds into investment in land and other developments in those areas, if only the economic climate were conducive to profitable investment in those areas.

We have, indeed, an Inner City Crisis.

Does the Minister not agree that the moral of what he has said is that the Government are not appraised of the seriousness of the Inner City Crisis and are not putting in sufficient resources?