§ Mr. PikeTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement on the current position with British schemes under the EC Retex initiative.
§ Mr. McLoughlinIn Great Britain, £4.4 million of RETEX grant is available. 66 applications were received, for over £9 million. Twenty-five projects have so far been approved by the programme monitoring committee, for over £3 million of grant. The programme is expected to be fully committed by December 1993.