HC Deb 19 January 1988 vol 125 cc665-6W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what was the total expenditure on(a) regional development grant and (b) selective assistance to (a) Grimsby travel-to-work area, (b) county Humberside and (c) Yorkshire and Humberside, in each year from 1978–79.

Mr. Atkins

Expenditure under the regional development grant and regional selective assistance schemes was as follows:

Regional development grant (RDG)1
£ million
Grimsby2 3 travel-to-work-area (TTWA) Humberside2 county Yorkshire and Humberside
1978–79 1.9 11.3 30.2
1979–80 1.3 6.3 21.5

Grimsby2 3 travel-to-work-area (TTWA) Humberside2 county Yorkshire and Humberside
1980–81 2.1 10.3 38.7
1981–82 3.3 18.1 47.1
1982–83 2.3 20.0 36.4
1983–84 2.5 16.5 23.5
1984–85 3.8 16.2 26.8
1985–86 1.2 9.4 24.2
1986–87 4.1 15.4 27.1
1 Consists of the original RDG scheme and the revised scheme introduced in November 1984.
2 The original RDG scheme element of these data includes only individual payments of over £25,000: payments below this size cannot be attributed to geographical areas smaller than planning regions.
3 Data for the original scheme only. Grimsby TTWA was downgraded from Development Area to Intermediate Area in November, 1984 and thus there have been no payments to this area under the revised RDG scheme.

Regional selective assistance1
£ million
Grimsby travel-to-work-area (TTWA) Humberside county Yorkshire and Humberside
1978–79 0.1 0.7 5.2
1979–80 0.2 0.8 6.8
1980–81 0.3 0.8 6.6
1981–82 0.1 0.7 7.1
1982–83 0.1 1.0 10.6
1983–84 0.2 1.8 8.8
1984–85 0.2 3.0 9.7
1985–86 0.2 2.7 8.3
1986–87 2.2 3.7 10.1
1 Industrial and training grants only. Details of expenditure under the business improvement services and exchange risk guarantee schemes are not available at TTWA, county or regional level.