§ Mr. Skeetasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the loans made by the European Investment Bank to the United Kingdom in each of the past three years, giving breakdowns of annual figures by industry.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettThe information requested is as follows:
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Date/Borrower Amount Project British Steel Corporation 3.5 Expansion of Dalzell Steelworks, Motherwell British Railways Board 5.0 Enlargement of two hovercraft British Steel Corporation 14.7 (i) £12.6m. for coal handling and blending system at Port Talbot; (ii) £2.1m. for improvements at Distington Works, Workington National Water Council 10.0 (i) £6m. for the Kielder Water Scheme, Northumbria; (ii) £4m. for water supply and sewerage projects in Cornwall Santa Fe Minerals (UK) Inc. 17.9 Development of Thistle oil field in the North Sea British Petroleum 30.4 (i) £19.7m. for acetic acid plant at Hull; (ii) £10 .7m. for pipeline from Ninian oil field to Sullom Voe British Steel Corporation 17.0 To increase casing pipe finishing capacity at two works near Glasgow and at Hartlepool 258.95 1977 Post Office 18.5 Extension and modernisation of telephone system in Northern Ireland National Water Council 8.3 Increase of water supplies in Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria British Steel Corporation 14.0 Ravenscraig works, Motherwell National Water Council 7.5 Water supply project and sewerage scheme in Teesside region. National Water Council 6.2 Water supply projects and sewerage schemes in Gwent, Mid and South Glamorgan National Water Council 2.5 Water supply and sewerage scheme in Cornwall National Water Council 7.5 Water supply project and sewerage scheme in Teesside region. National Water Council 14.6 Water supply project in Yorkshire North of Scotland Hydro-Electricity Board 4.1 Reinforcement of electricity transmission system to the Isle of Skye. Introduction of first mains electricity supply to three Shetland Islands British Steel Corporation 6.9 Construction of Benzole refinery at Port Clarence on Teesside British Steel Corporation 7.7 Modernisation of iron foundries at Distington works. Workington and Fullwood, near Motherwell British Steel Corporation 3.8 Modernisation of steel foundry at Craigneuk, near Motherwell British Steel Corporation 52.7 Expansion of steelworks at Motherwell Lothian Water 25.0 To increase water supplies to Edinburgh and Midlothian and to reduce pollution in the Firth of Forth by major improvements to Edinburgh sewerage system National Water Council 6.2 Water supply projects and sewerage schemes in Gwent, Mid and South Glamorgan National Water Council 19.8 Works designed to increase water supplies in the North-west of England South of Scotland Electricity Board 4.3 Erection of transmission line in Scotland UK Government Agency 20.0 Finance for small and medium-sized industrial ventures in the assisted areas British Railways Board 7.2 High speed rail depots on East Coast British Steel Corporation 8.0 Third iron ore unloader at Redcar, South Teesside British Steel Corporation 3.9 Modernisation of Templeton Brickworks, Co. Durham Central Electricity Generating Board 52.3 Construction of power station at Heysham, Lancashire National Water Council 19.8 Improvement of water supplies by construction of Kielder dam and distribution system to the Wear and Tees 320.7 The breakdown of the annual figures by industry is as follows:
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1975 1976 (£m.) 1977 Electricity 51.2 26.0 60.7 Distilling 12.0 — — Coal mining 7.2 — —
1975 1976 (£m) 1977 Gas 47.8 45.9 — North sea oil 16.9 45.4 — Post Office 17.5 34.9 18.5 Water 7.5 23.0 117.4 Steel 17.5 41.95 97.0 Railways 6.3 22.1 7.2 Chemicals — 19.7 — Miscellaneous 2.6 — 20.0 186.5 258.95 320.8