Can the hon. Gentleman say whether the area has been actually surveyed by officials of his Department and whether a development plan has been agreed upon? If so, did his Department agree to the cutting out of all passenger train facilities from the direct south connection point of Kilmarnock, which leaves the new area bereft of any passenger train facilities directly with the South and London? May I further ask him, in connection with the overspill coming into Irvine and the designation of Irvine as a growth point, whether he has agreed to give Ayr County Council additional allowances for capital expenditure for the provision of schools, or has it to meet this from its already cut-down programme, about which there has been so much protest?