HC Deb 24 November 1987 vol 123 cc152-3W
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what was his Department's total expenditure on regional aid to industry, in each differing category of aid, in England and in each of the standard English regions in each financial year since 1978–79 both at current and outturn prices.

Mr. Atkins

For the period in question, expenditure at current prices by my Department on regional aid to industry, by category of assistance paid by standard economic region was as follows:

£ million
Region 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87
Regional Development Grants
East Midlands 2.3 2.4 3.2 7.2 8.8 8.2 3.8 4.4 8.4
North 135.3 122.4 117.5 143.9 127.2 101.3 89.1 67.2 102.1
North West 64.3 58.7 105.7 143.4 97.3 83.0 79.9 62.1 101.2
South West 6.0 5.0 8.5 10.3 11.0 7.8 9.5 8.6 15.3
West Midlands 0.1 — 0.1 — 0.1 — — — —
Yorkshire and Humberside 30.2 21.5 38.7 47.1 36.4 23.5 26.8 24.2 27.1
Total 238.2 210.0 273.7 351.9 280.8 223.8 209.1 166.5 254.1
Regional Selective Assistance
Industrial Grants
East Midlands 0.7 0.9 0.6 1.0 4.2 8.7 6.4 3.9 2.2
North 10.7 11.5 15.6 22.6 21.1 15.4 15.3 16.2 18.9
North West 40.1 23.3 19.3 14.6 18.3 13.6 13.7 12.7 18.7
South West 2.4 2.7 2.5 1.7 2.7 2.0 2.1 2.3 5.2
West Midlands — — — — — — — 5.5 9.9
Yorkshire and Humberside 5.2 6.8 6.6 7.1 10.6 8.8 9.7 8.3 10.0
Total 59.1 45.2 44.6 47.0 56.9 48.5 47.2 48.9 64.9
Exchange Risk Guarantee Scheme1 — — — 1.1 3.7 5.2 14.2 11.7 19.3
Business Improvement Services1 — — — — — — — 5.6 13.3
Total Regional Selective Assistance 59.1 45.2 44.6 48.1 60.6 53.7 61.4 66.2 97.5
English Industrial Estates Corporation1 24.1 26.4 29.1 25.8 12.4 17.0 9.2 10.9 12.6
1 Expenditure under the exchange risk guarantee scheme, the business improvement services and by the English Industrial Estates Corporation are not available at the regional level: totals only have therefore been provided.

These data converted into constant (1986–87) prices2 are as follows:

£ million
Region 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87
Regional Development Grants
East Midlands 4.5 4.0 4.5 9.2 10.5 9.4 4.2 4.5 8.4
North 263.2 203.7 165.0 184.0 151.8 115.5 97.4 69.2 102.1
North West 125.1 97.7 148.5 183.4 116.1 94.6 87.3 64.0 101.2
South West 11.7 8.3 11.9 13.2 13.1 8.9 10.4 8.9 15.3
West Midlands 0.2 — 0.1 — 0.1 — — — —
Yorkshire and Humberside 58.8 35.8 54.4 60.2 43.4 26.8 29.3 24.9 27.1
Total 463.5 349.5 384.4 450.0 335.0 255.2 228.6 171.5 254.1
Regional Selective Assistance Industrial Grants
East Midlands 1.3 1.5 0.8 1.3 5.0 10.0 7.0 4.0 2.2
North 20.8 19.1 21.9 28.9 25.1 17.6 16.8 16.7 18.9
North West 78.1 38.8 27.2 18.7 21.8 15.5 14.9 13.0 18.7
South West 4.7 4.4 3.6 2.2 3.2 2.3 2.3 2.4 5.2
West Midlands — — — — — — — 5.6 9.9
Yorkshire and Humberside 10.1 11.2 9.3 9.1 12.6 10.1 10.6 8.6 10.0
Total 115.0 75.0 62.8 60.2 67.7 55.5 51.6 50.3 64.9
Exchange Risk Guarantee Scheme1 — — — 1.4 4.5 6.0 15.5 12.0 19.3
Business Improvement Services1 — — — — — — — 5.8 13.3
Total Regional Selective Assistances 115.0 75.0 62.8 61.6 72.2 61.5 67.1 68.1 97.5
English Industrial Estates Corporation1 46.9 43.9 40.9 33.0 14.8 19.4 10.1 11.2 12.6
1 Expenditure under the exchange risk guarantee scheme, the business improvement services and by the English Industrial Estates Corporation are not available at the regional level: totals only have therefore been provided.
2 Current price data have been converted to constant (1986–87) prices by using the implied market price gross domestic product deflator (1980=100).