HC Deb 17 November 1992 vol 214 cc131-2W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 9 November,Official Report, column 606, if he will list those areas in the United Kingdom that are (a) part of the United Kingdom's assisted areas map but do not qualify for EC regional development funding and (b) not part of the United Kingdom's assisted areas maps but which qualify for EC regional development funding.

Mr. Sainsbury

The areas in the United Kingdom that are assisted areas but do not qualify for EC regional development funding include: the whole travel-to-workareas—TTWAs—of Cinderford and Ross-on-Wye, Corby, Kidderminster, and Whitby; and part of the TTWAs of Birmingham, Coventry and Hinckley, and Dudley and Sandwell.

The areas in the United Kingdom that are not assisted areas but qualify for EC regional development funding include: Northern Ireland; the whole TTWAs of Aberystwyth, Alnwick and Amble, Brecon, Burnley, Castleford and Pontefract, Camarthen, Chesterfield, Dolgellau and Barmouth, Inverness, Islay Mid Argyll, Keith, Llandeilo, Llandrindod Wells, Machynlleth, Mansfield, Newtown, Oban, Orkney Islands, Pendle, Retford, Shetland Islands, Thurso, Wakefield arid Dewsbury, Welshpool, Whitehaven, Worksop; and part of the TTWAs of Alfreton and Ashfield, Edinburgh, Elgin, Goole and Selby, Manchester, Nottingham, and Stirling.