HC Deb 11 July 1973 vol 859 cc386-7W
Mr. David Knox

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many applications for industrial development certificates were withdrawn in the United Kingdom in 1972.

Mr. Anthony Grant

407, most of which were for factories of an area lying between the old and new exemption limits.

Mr. Knox

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many industrial development certificates were granted in Leek rural district in 1972; and how this figure compares with the figure for 1970.

Mr. Anthony Grant

IDC records are kept on the basis of employment exchange areas. In the Leek EEA, four IDCs were issued in 1972 and four in 1970. The figures are not comparable because the exemption limit was raised in December 1970 and July 1972.