§ Mr. Pendryasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list the amounts of grants made to the various English development councils and associations in each year since May 1979.
§ Mr. MacGregorSince May 1979 the four English development organisations have received from Department of Industry grants-in-aid as follows:
§ Mr. Prescottasked the Secretary of State for Industry what was the total area of unoccupied factory space in each region of the United Kingdom for the last month for which statistics are available.
§ Mr. MacGregorNo official information is available.
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§ Mr. Prescottasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list, region by region, all those expansion projects announced since May 1979; the number of jobs they are hoped to create; and over what time scale.
§ Mr. MacGregorThere is no obligation on companies to furnish my Department with details of expansion projects. The information requested is, therefore, not available.
§ Mr. Prescottasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list job losses from British Steel, British Leyland and British Shipbuilders by region, in each year since May 1979.
§ Mr. ButcherThis information is not available in the precise form in which the hon. Member has asked for it. Such data as are available are as follows:
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The British Steel Corporation publishes details of numbers employed at September each year, by standard region, in its annual statistics*. Job losses between successive Septembers, calculated from the published figures, are as follows:
Standard region September 1978 to September 1979 September 1979 to September 1980 September 1980 to September 1981 North [+110] 6,850 8,500 Yorkshire and Humberside 460 4,210 9,860 East Midlands 650 6,750 2,010 East Anglia 30 70 10 South East 300 260 620 South West 20 — 60 Wales 1,210 18,690 7,400 West Midlands 1,640 1,350 1,550 North West 890 940 230 Scotland 1,570 4,130 1,580 Northern Ireland† — — — TOTAL: 6,660 43,250 31,820 * "Annual Statistics for the Corporation" available from: BSC Statistical Services, 12 Addiscombe Road, Croydon CR9 3JH. † BSC has no employees in Northern Ireland. BL
Employment figures on a regional basis for BL are not readily available, though BL may be able to give the hon. Member some indication of the regional position if he approaches it direct. BL's annual reports and accounts show overall job losses in its United Kingdom operations as follows:
Year to 31 December Job losses 1979 17,565 1980 26,032 1981 21,849 BS
British Shipbuilders has provided figures for job losses on a regional basis as follows:
Number of jobs lost Region: June 1979 to June 1980 June 1980 to June 1981 June 1981 to May 1982 North 3,200 1,490 375 Yorkshire and Humberside 120 150 5 East Anglia and South East 150 350 250 South West 80 5 190 North West 1,775 300 150 Scotland 4,190 1,100 10 TOTAL 9,515 3,395 980 Note: All figures are rounded.
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§ Mr. Prescottasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list the proportion of the total manufacturing output by percentage for each region of the United Kingdom in each year since May 1979.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe latest year for which data on the value of output in manufacturing industry are available on a regional basis is 1979. Each region's net output as a proportion of the United Kingdom total is shown in table 7 ofBusiness Monitor PA 1002, 1979: "Report on the Census of Production, Summary Tables", (HMSO).