HL Deb 07 February 1978 vol 388 cc1029-32WA
Lord O'HAGAN

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will publish a table showing the United Kingdom's gross receipts from the Regional Development Fund of the EEC since its inception; and whether they will show what percentage of the whole, each economic planning region has received annually.

Lord WINTERBOTTOM

By mentioned above and only Type 1 waste will remain contained within the vaults of the reactor building. For the Hinkley Point 'B' design such waste would occupy a total volume of 600m3.

It should be noted that fission products contained within the spent fuel are not included in the above assessment, as all spent fuel is transported to British Nuclear Fuels Limited at Windscale where it is planned that it should be reprocessed.

December, 1977, the European Commission had committed the United Kingdom's full share of the 1975–77 European Regional Development Fund (£150.4 million) as contributions towards the cost of projects located in the Assisted Areas and in Northern Ireland. Payments against this commitment are made in step with national expenditure on the projects concerned. Gross receipts to date total £93.9 million.

The annual gross receipts in respect of projects in each economic planning region are shown, as percentages of the total gross receipts, in the following table:—

Economic Planning Region Year
1975 Percentage 1976 Percentage 1977 Percentage 1975–77 Percentage
Northern 0.7 13.9 15.1 29.7
NorthWest 0.3 4.5 4.8 9.6
Yorkshire and Humberside 0.1 1.3 2.8 4.2
East Midlands (Assisted Areas) —* 0.2 0.2 0.4
West Midlands (Assisted Areas) 0 —* 0 —*
South West (Assisted Areas) 0.1 0.6 0.9 1.6
England 1.2 20.5 23.8 45.5
Northern Ireland 2.7 7.9 6.8 17.4
Scotland 2.2 6.2 16.8 25.2
Wales 2.1 4.5 5.3 11.9
United Kingdom 8.2 39.1 52.7 100.0
NOTE 1. *Amounts of less than 0.1 per cent.
NOTE 2. Projects in the Non-Assisted par s of the East Midlands, West Midlands, Eastern and South East Regions are not eligible for the European Regional Development Fund.

House adjourned at twenty four minutes before eight o'clock.