§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will give a detailed regional breakdown of where the money made available by his Department for information technology has been spent.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerDepartment of Industry funds for the development and application of informationtechnology are made available under a variety of schemes, including the microprocessor application project, the microelectronics industry support programme, the product and process development scheme, the fibre optic scheme. the computer aided design-manufacturing scheme and the robotics support programme. All of those schemes are available to companies on a national basis within the United Kingdom. Records of assistance provided to companies under these schemes are not maintained on a regional basis and it would be a major task to collate the information in the form requested.