§ Mr. SwireTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much of her Department's allocation was spent in the constituency of East Devon(a) in real terms and (b) as a percentage of the total budget in the last financial year. [17286]
§ Ms HewittThe DTI does not hold centrally information on resources spent in particular constituencies. To provide the information requested for most departmental programmes and schemes would require individual examination of a large number of individual cases, which would incur disproportionate cost. It would also raise problems of definition: some expenditure for example supports firms or organisations operating on a national basis. Information on expenditure at constituency level is however available for two departmental schemes and programmes.
- 1. Government Office South West advise that in 2000–01 £32,753.25 was paid out under the SMART scheme in East Devon (0.14 per cent. of total SMART expenditure and 0.002 per cent. of the Department's total Trade and Industry budget as voted by Parliament).
- 2. There were no applications for Enterprise Grants—and hence no expenditure—in East Devon in 2000–01. Departmental expenditure on Enterprise Grants in 2000–01 was £3.6 million.