§ Mr. Elystan Morganasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what
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Resettlement Transfer Scheme Employment Transfer Scheme Free fares for interviews, to take up employment and in domestic emergency. … No change. Assisted fares for visits home … £6 settling-in grant … Lodging allowance of £4.55 per week for workers with dependants. … Lodging allowance of £6.58 per week for workers with dependants. £2 per week disturbance allowance for workers without dependants whose homes before transfer are in Assisted Areas (whether they move within or outside these areas). Household removal expenses … No change Free fares for dependants on removal of, household. … Incidental expenses grant of £100 on removal … Rehousing grant of £100 for moves originating outside the Assisted Areas, £400 for moves originating in the Assisted Areas or £600 for trainees under the Government's Vocational Training Scheme who satisfy certain conditions. Assistance towards solicitors and house agents fees of three-quarters of the cost up to £135 for house sale or purchase and up to £220 for both sale and purchase. … The maxima are increased to £145 for sale or purchase and £240 for both sale and purchase. Continuing liability allowance up to £4.55 per week. … Continuing liability allowance up to £6.58 per week. Upper salary limit for determining eligibility—£2,400. … Upper salary limit £2,650 was the total sum of regional assistance directly aimed towards industry and industrial development in Wales in 1971.
§ Mr. Anthony GrantThe information is available for the financial year only. On this basis expenditure on Government preferential assistance to industry in Wales was £50.4 million in 1970–71.