§ Mr. HindTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the number of applications granted for regional selective assistance and total amount of grant allocated in the district of West Lancashire in 1990–91 and 1991–92 to date.
§ Mr. LeighIn the financial year 1990–91 the Department made offers totalling £647,000 on six applications for regional selective assistance in the local authority district of West Lancashire. Between 1 April 1991 and 23 January 1992 a further nine offers were made with a total value of £1,006,000.
§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Cardiff, West of 22 January,Official Report, column 243 when the cost per job limit for regional selective assistance was last altered.
§ Mr. LeighThe cost per job limit is an administrative criterion which forms part of the terms under which Treasury authority to make financial assistance available under section 7(1) of the Industrial Development Act 1982 is delegated to the Secretary of State. The terms of the delegated powers are subject to regular review; the cost per job limit has remained unchanged since 1984.