§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list, by country, the total amount of state aid approved by the Commission since the signing of the Single European Act. [95407]
§ Mr. CabornBetween 1987 and 1997, the Commission approved a total of approximately 861,438 million euros in State aid throughout the EU, of which 430,240.21 million euros was paid to the manufacturing industry.
These data were compiled from the Commission's surveys on aid to industry across the EU; the most recent being "The Seventh Survey on aid in the EU in the manufacturing and certain other sectors", which was published in March 1999. The Eighth Survey, covering the period 1997–98, has not yet been published. The surveys provide a broad overview on aid granted across the EU, but data on State aid to agriculture, fisheries, coal, steel, transport and the financial services sector are not broken down by country.
The table sets out the total State aid to the manufacturing industry granted by each member state in millions of euro.
Millions of euro Member state Total state aid to industry 1987–97 Austria1 1,600.00 Belgium 13,925.00 Denmark 5,213.79 Germany 144,983.00 Greece 35,998.20 Spain 23,303.10 Finland1 1,154.00 France 54,899.80 Ireland 3,986.22 Italy 116,907.00 Luxembourg 503.18 Netherlands 9,268.99 Portugal 5,419.54 Sweden1 1,140.00 UK 25,216.60 1 Austria, Finland and Sweden joined the EU in 1995