§ Mr. Keith HillTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish the amount of regional preferential assistance paid to each standard region of England, Scotland and Wales in each year from 1978–79 in(a) cash and (b) constant prices and with an annual index.
§ Mr. SainsburyInformation on regional preferential assistance in each standard region of England, Scotland and Wales from 1978–79 at cash and 1991–92 prices with an annual index is set out in the tables. The expenditure is gross of recoveries. Regional information on a net basis is not readily available.
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Government expenditure on regional financial assistance to industry at 1991–92 prices1 4 £ million Table 2 Region 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 Northern 430.4 350.8 296.3 319.0 266.6 208.0 190.7 139.2 191.5 144.6 165.6 135.4 90.0 63.8 Yorkshire and Humberside 101.4 79.1 102.9 111.1 89.3 58.0 67.3 52.4 58.4 51.3 62.0 37.5 31.4 18.2 East Midlands 9.2 10.2 9.2 15.6 23.0 28.0 17.3 12.7 14.9 12.4 10.9 11.0 5.9 2.6 South West 26.0 25.8 24.6 26.7 27.7 19.3 22.2 17.7 32.1 19.6 18.1 124 9.6 8.3 West Midlands 2 3 0.5 0.2 — — — — — 10.2 14.8 25.5 32.3 23.0 19.3 8.7 North West 5309.2 5223.0 5268.2 5312.9 5208.3 5166.5 161.7 126.1 180.8 104.5 101.6 86.0 61.5 49.5 England 876.7 689.1 701.2 785.3 614.9 479.8 459.2 358.3 492.5 357.9 390.5 305.3 218.6 151.1 Wales 358.0 261.9 344.4 353.3 304.0 191.7 224.2 199.4 210.2 175.1 183.0 152.4 143.0 153.9 Scotland 423.0 313.7 382.1 415.9 616.7 365.2 284.3 283.9 338.1 202.6 186.7 167.4 170.2 135.4 Great Britain 1,657.7 1,264.7 1,427.7 1,554.5 1,535.6 1,036.7 967.7 841.6 1,040.8 735.6 760.2 625.1 531.8 440.4 Notes to tables 1, 2 and 3:
1 All figures are gross and include payments to nationalised industries.
2 Includes some minor expenditure in West Midlands in respect of Oswestry TTWA which ceased to be an assisted area in 1982–83.
3 Certain TTWAs in the West Midlands were designated as assisted areas on 29 November 1984.
4 Expenditure on a 1991–92 price basis for each year is calculated by applying the appropriate deflator to expenditure at current prices.
5 Includes expenditure in Cumbria, otherwise shown within the totals for Northern region.
The items included in the expenditure are regional development grants, regional selective assistance and regional enterprise grants; expenditure on Land and factories by the English Industrial Estates Corporation, the Scottish and Welsh Development Agencies, the Development Board for Rural Wales, and the Highlands and Islands Development Board.
Table 3 Index 1991–92 prices 1978–79 36.9 1979–80 43.1 1980–81 50.9 1981–82 55.9 1982–83 59.9 1983–84 62.6 1984–85 65.8 1985–86 69.4 1986–87 71.7 1987–88 75.6 1988–89 81.0 1989–90 86.4 1990–91 93.5 1991–92 100.0