HC Deb 09 December 1985 vol 88 c433W
Mr. MacKenzie

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish in the Official Report the total amounts offered under the regional grant schemes at 1984 prices to companies in Scotland for each of the past 10 years.

Mr. Peter Morrison

Details relating to offers of regional selective assistance (RSA) and to payments of regional development grants (RDG I) for the last 10 years in Scotland at 1984 prices are as follows:

Value of RSA offers (1984 prices) Value of RDG payments (1984 prices)
£000 £000
1975–76 61,783 247,169
1976–77 53,969 240,069
1977–78 36,091 204,731
1978–79 28,664 189,651
1979–80 61,358 106,057
1980–81 49,330 144,096
1981–82 49,370 164,882
1982–83 58,734 310,134
1983–84 53,224 147,787
1984–85 77,540 107,727

Mr. MacKenzie

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish in the Official Report the total amounts offered under the regional grants schemes, at 1984 prices, to companies in the Rutherglen constituency, for each of the last 10 years.

Mr. Peter Morrison

I regret the information is not available for all regional and industrial grants because it would be too costly to transfer the historic records to the computer data base. For the same reason a manual search to match addresses is also ruled out. However, the new regional development grants are being recorded and regional selective assistance (RSA) under section 7 of the Industrial Development Act is available for past years. The details for RSA in the Glasgow, Rutherglen constituency are as set out at 1984 prices.

Value of offers (1984 prices)
£000
1975–76 20
1976–77 3,459
1977–78 23
1978–79 292
1979–80 21
1980–81 132
1981–82 1,236
1982–83 583
1983–84 77
1984–85 2,285