§ Mr. Gordon BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list all enterprise zones and the dates tax exemptions or rates reliefs cease.
§ Mr. TrippierThe period for which each of the following areas is designated as an enterprise zone is ten years from the date when the designation took effect. The financial benefits of enterprise zone status end when the area concerned ceases to be an enterprise zone.
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Name of enterprise zone Date of designation Belfast 21 August 1981 Clydebank (City of Glasgow) 18 August 1981 (Clydebank District) 3 August 1981 Corby 22 June 1981 Dale Lane and Kinsley (Wakefield) 23 September 1983 Delyn 21 July 1983 Dudley 10 July 1981 Dudley (Round Oak) 3 October 1984 Glanford (Flixborough) 13 April 1984 Hartlepool 23 October 1981 Invergordon 7 October 1983 Isle of Dogs 26 April 1982 Langthwaite Grange (Wakefield) 31 July 1981 Londonderry 13 September 1983
Name of enterprise zone Date of designation Lower Swansea Valley 11 June 1981 Lower Swansea Valley Number 2 6 March 1985 Middlesbrough (Britannia) 8 November 1983 Milford Haven 24 April 1984 North East Lancashire 7 December 1983 North West Kent (zones Numbers 1–5) 31 October 1983 North West Kent (zones Numbers 6 and 7) 10 October 1986 Rotherham 16 August 1983 Salford Docks/Trafford Park 12 August 1981 Scunthorpe 23 September 1983 Speke (Liverpool) 25 August 1981 Tayside 9 January 1984 Telford 13 January 1984 Tyneside 25 August 1981 Wellingborough 26 July 1983 Workington (Allerdale) 4 October 1983
§ Mr. Gordon BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will itemise all the costs of enterprise zones since their inception.
§ Mr. TrippierThe costs of the British enterprise zones to 1985–86 are contained in "EZ Information 1985–86", a copy of which has been placed in the Library. I expect to publish the next in this series of annual reports in the very near future.
§ Mr. Gordon BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of the cost per job created in enterprise zones once all costs are taken into account.
§ Mr. TrippierThe consultants commissioned by my Department to evaluate the enterprise zone experiment about mid-way through its life estimated the public cost per additional job within the enterprise zones to be £8,500. ("An evaluation of the enterprise zone experiment" by PA Cambridge Economic Consultants, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office December 1987.) This figure is liable to change over time as both the number of additional jobs and the public costs in the zones increase.