§ Mr. Gordon BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list for each region, Scotland and Wales payments of regional development grants, regional selective assistance, regionalinvestment grants and regional innovation grants for this financial year and,
Regional Development Grants Regional Selective Assistance1 Regional Investment Grants2 Regional Innovation Grants2 (£ million) (£ million) (£ thousand) (£ thousand) 1988–89 East Midlands 7.9 1.0 l0 nil North East 78.7 33.5 234 32 North West 49.6 22.0 299 118 South West 6.6 4.9 61 13 West Midlands nil 24.0 3 n/a 3 n/a Yorkshire and Humberside 19.3 21.1 108 44 Scotland 76.6 37.7 231 51 Wales 58.6 36.2 182 36 1989–904 East Midlands 6.9 0.5 117 50 North East 28.0 18.6 917 311 North West 17.9 14.9 762 99 South West 1.8 2.1 185 41 West Midlands nil 13.5 3n/a 3n/a Yorkshire and Humberside 8.0 7.0 629 120 Scotland 41.0 19.5 448 436 Wales 15.9 17.8 307 172 1 Industrial and training grants only. Further payments of £2.9 million and £0.6 million which cannot be allocated to a specific region were made in 1988–89 and 1989–90 respectively. 2 These grants, which make up the Regional Enterprise Grants scheme, are applicable only in Development Areas and the Intermediate Areas in South Yorkshire designated under the EC RESIDER programme. 3 No designated areas in this region. 4 To end November 1989. Expenditure plans for 1990–91 and 1991–92 will be published in the public expenditure White Paper in January.
Deflators for part-years are not readily available. It would be inappropriate to use the deflator for 1989–90 as a whole to convert the outturn figures for the first eight months of the year only.