Mr. R. C. Mitchellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list in the Official Report those grants and loans which have been received or are fully committed by British undertakers from the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the European Investment Bank, the European Coal and Steel Community and the Guidance Section of the European Farm Fund since Great Britain's entry into the EEC.
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1. EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND—ALLOCATED GRANTS £ million Scheme 1973 1974 1975 1976 to date 1. GOVERNMENTAL BODIES Training, transference and rehabilitation of former agricultural workers and workers in or leaving the textile industries in the United Kingdom 0.787 0.300 1.332 — Training for unemployed workers in the assisted areas of Great Britain 14.302 13.600 22.247 14.568 Transference of unemployed workers in the assisted areas of Great Britain 1.520 0.003 2.147 — Training and rehabilitation of unemployed workers in Northern Ireland 3.786 3.967 4.820 0.636 Encouragement of training and safeguarding the position of young workers during a period of high unemployment* — — 4.448 0.291 Training of heavy goods vehicle drivers — 0.159 0.348 0.477 Training divers for work associated with offshore oil development — — 0.096 0.125 Assistance of disabled people in United Kingdom 3.519 4.362 2.844 — Community Industry Scheme — 0.600 1.227 — Assistance to migrant workers and their families — 2.643 5.086 — Training in rural areas run by the Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas (COSIRA) and the Small Industries Council in Rural Areas in Scotland (SICRAS) — 0.083 0.241 0.064 Retraining of forestry workers run by the Forestry Commission — — 0.120 0.040
§ Mr. Joel Barnett,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 25th June 1976; Vol. 913, c. 661], circulated the following answer:
The amounts of grants and loans which have been received by the United Kingdom since our entry into the European Communities are as follows:
£ million Loans Grants Regional Development Fund — 7.750 European Social Fund — 113.671 European Investment Bank 387.100 — European Coal and Steel Community 565.851 30.808 European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund—Guidance section — 54.734 For a list of projects supported by the Regional Development Fund, I refer my hon. Friend to Trade and Industry for 6th February 1976 and 7th May 1976. Further lists of projects supported by the fund will be published from time to time. Gross receipts for the fund up to 15th January 1976 were £7.750 million.
Lists of grants and loans for the other Community activities are as follows:
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£ million Scheme 1973 1974 1975 1976 to date 2. NON-GOVERNMENTAL BODIES Training of workers run by Industrial Training Boards* — 0.126 0.372 1.029 Training of workers run by nationalised industries* — — 0.156 0.139 Training of workers from private companies in Great Britain — — 0.088 0.010 Training of workers on employers premises in Northern Ireland* — 0.087 0.360 0.449 Queen Elizabeth Foundation for the Disabled* — — — 0.067 Total 23.914 25.930 45.932 17.895 * For these schemes amounts have also been allocated for 1977 and 1978.
2. EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK LOANS Borrower Amount 1973 £m. Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation 3.5 British Steel Corporation 14.7 British Steel Corporation 14.7 32.9 1974 North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board 10.4 Elf Oil (UK), Total Oil (UK) and Aquitaine Oil (UK) 10.4 Kent and Essex County Councils 7.0 British Steel Corporation 8.0 British Steel Corporation 12.0 Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation 10.0* Lewis Offshore Ltd. 4.0 Electricity Council 15.6 Short Brothers and Harland Ltd Belfast 2.5 79.9 *Lapsed in November 1975 after only £0.6 million had been allocated
1975 South of Scotland Electricity Board 15.6 Electricity Council 7.8 Distillers Company 12.0 South of Scotland Electricity Board 7.8 National Coal Board 7.2 British Gas Corporation 24.2 British Gas Corporation 23.6