HC Deb 28 February 1995 vol 255 cc496-8W
Mr. Sweeney

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales will the Secretary of State provide details of what performance targets for 1995–96 he has proposed for the Welsh Development Agency, the Development Board for Rural Wales, the Wales tourist board and the Cardiff Bay development corporation.

Mr. Redwood

The targets I am proposing to the chairman of the bodies concerned are:

1995–96 target
Welsh Development Agency
Job creation
Number safeguarded or created 13,000
Minimum percentage outside M4 and A55 catchment areas 20
Inward Investment
New jobs 10,000
Investment (£ million) 500
Industrial and commercial floor space (direct build and joint ventures)
Square metres 100,000
Property
Disposal (£ million) 90
Vacant space (000 Sq metres) 116
Investment
In conjunction with capital programme (£ million) 650
Derelict land
Reclamation hectares 850
Efficiency
Management funning costs (£ million) 13.2
Reduction in consultancy (costs £000) 700
DEVELOPMENT BOARD FOR RURAL WALES
Job creation
Number safeguarded or created 1,500
Property
Disposal (£ million) 6.0
Void rate (percentage) 10.0
Investment in conjunction with capital programme
£ million 30
Management
Running costs £ million 3.689
Reduction in consultancy costs (£000) 170
CARDIFF BAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION CBDC'S PROGRAMME BARRAGE
Expenditure in year (£ million) 42.0
Percentage completed 54
Land reclamation
Hectares 24
Land disposal
Hectares 30
Receipts (£ million) 10.3
Roads
Constructed (kilometres) 3.5
Running costs (£ million) 4.1
PRIVATE SECTOR ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT
Private Sector Investment (£ million) 120
Industrial/Commercial floor space (sq metres) 69,500
Residential (units) 560
Jobs 3,000
1995–96 target
WALES TOURIST BOARD
Capital development
Private sector investment (£ million) 18.0
Leverage Private: Public 6.1
Direct marketing: cost per response 75p
Wales share of GB market, (percentage) 9.5
Average occupancy rates, (per cent.):
Hotel and Guest Houses 40
Caravan Sector 62
Self Catering 72
Running costs (£ million) 4.15

Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to the answer of the Chancellor of the Exchequer of 22 February,Official Report, column 195, what information he has on the numbers of non-executive members of the boards of non-departmental public bodies sponsored by him who are paid other than on a schedule E basis, and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Redwood

This information is not held centrally. However, non-departmental public bodies sponsored by my Department were instructed in May 1994 that hoard members' remuneration should he subject to national insurance and tax in the usual way.

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