§ Mrs. Ray MichieTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give full details of all discretionary grants awarded to Health Care International for the building of its new hospital complex at Clydebank; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. FyfeTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what level of Government subsidy has been provided towards the Health Care International hospital in Clydebank.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 8 March 1994]: Details of such assistance are generally treated as commercially confidential. However information about the offer of regional selective assistance made to the company under Section 7 of the Industrial Development Act 1982 was published in the April 1992 edition of the "Employment Gazette", a copy of which is available in the Library.
Land reclamation work was also undertaken on the site by the Scottish Development Agency/Scottish Enterprise. This work was required to deal with the effects of industrial dereliction, primarily asbestos pollution, and to render the site capable of use and was largely undertaken prior to the sale of the site to Health Care International.