§ Ms. WalleyTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list(a) the area, (b) the amount of grant aid and (c) the purpose to which additional funding was put for all additional resources throughout the country granted under the assisted area programme.
§ Mr. Sainsbury[holding answer 20 November 1992]: Information about applications for regional grants, that is 905W regional selective assistance (RSA) and regional enterprise grants (REG) and the purposes to which they are put, are matters of commercial confidentiality between applicants and the Department concerned. Some RSA grant details where offers are of £75,000 or more are, however, published quarterly in the Employment Gazette. In any event, information in the form requested is not readily available and could be collated only at disproportionate cost.
1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 North East 76 179 209 208 164 North West 156 275 380 395 271 Yorkshire and Humberside 107 211 250 253 171 West Midlands 95 187 249 230 193 East Midlands 75 144 171 206 301 London and the South East 377 715 1201 1354 1073 South West 151 213 360 395 477 Scotland 81 127 152 141 131 Wales 75 182 208 184 154 Northern Ireland 29 33 24 27 14 Total 1222 2266 3204 3393 2949
£ million 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 North East 2.4 4.46 5.19 4.64 3.61 North West 5.62 6.76 10.13 8.66 5.43 Yorkshire and Humberside 4.24 5.25 7.47 5.13 3.36 West Midlands 3.08 4.95 6.32 5.93 4.76 East Midlands 2.84 3.85 4.85 5.53 7.17 London and the South East 15.08 22.01 41.62 36.97 27.63 South West 5.39 5.62 9.89 9.13 9.92 Scotland 3.24 4.14 7.67 4.44 4.29 Wales 2.86 5.45 5.34 3.47 3.41 Northern Ireland 0.77 1.12 0.92 1.21 0.58 Total 45.52 63.61 99.40 85.11 70.16