§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list all(a) loans, (b) grants and (c) other payments in excess of £100,000 made in each of the last five years by the Welsh Office to (a) the Tesco company and (b) other companies; and if he will make a statement. [12719]
§ Mr. HagueThe Welsh Office made an offer of regional selective assistance of £2 million in 1989 to the Tesco company in respect of a project to locate its administration centre in Cardiff. In 1992, an offer of £3.8 million was made to encourage the company to locate a distribution centre in Magor. Details of the amounts paid against these offers are commercially confidential.
The Welsh Office has made no other loans or payments to the company.
Details of regional selective assistance payments to other companies are also covered by commercial confidentiality. Total payments of RSA made in respect of projects in Wales in the last five years are shown in the table.
£ million RSA payments £ million (Gross) 1999–91 31.0 1991–92 55.1 1992–93 61.7 1993–94 50.8 1994–95 56.9
§ Mr. PrescottTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the expenditure on regional selective assistance offers accepted by companies in(a) 1991–92, (b) 1992–93, (c) 1993–94 and (d) 1994–95, the proportion of regional selective assistance expenditure on foreign-owned firms and regional selective assistance expenditure per employee in manufacturing. [12702]
§ Mr. HagueThe information is given in the following table.
1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 Value of RSA offers £76.9 £72.5 94.6 38.2 accepted million million million million Percentage to foreign-owned firms 55.7 42.2 58.2 33.0 Grant per job in manufacturing projects £5,764 £5,784 £7,361 £6,031