§ Mrs. Margaret EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in theOfficial Report the number of awards of sequestration during the year ending 31 March 1991 to the latest available date and the total gross payments to trustees from public funds during the current financial year, to the latest available date.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 30 October 1990]: In the current financial year up to 30 September 1990 there have been 2,963 awards of sequestration made in the Scottish courts. Gross payments to trustees to that date amounted to £3,438,752.
594Wwhich he expects to enter the development phase, indicating when he expects each of them to become fully operational.
§ Mr. LangAll local enterprise companies in Scotland are in the development phase. A full list is given in the table:
- Enterprise Ayrshire
- Scottish Borders Enterprise Ltd.
- Dumfries and Galloway Enterprise Company
- Dunbartonshire Enterprise
- Fife Enterprise
- Forth Valley Enterprise
- Glasgow Development Agency
- Grampian Enterprise Ltd.
- Lanarkshire Enterprise
- Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd.
- Renfrewshire Enterprise Company
- Scottish Enterprise Tayside
- Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey Enterprise Company
- Orkney Enterprise Company Ltd.
- Shetland Enterprise Company Ltd.
- Western Isles Local Enterprise Company
- Argyll and the Islands Enterprise Company
- Skye and Lochalsh Enterprise
- Caithness and Sutherland Local Enterprise Company
- Ross and Cromarty Enterprise
- Inverness and Nairn Local Enterprise Company
- Lochaber Limited
It is for the local enterprise companies to decide with Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise the date on which they become operational. It is likely that most if not all will become operational by the summer of 1991.