§ Mr. BradyTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the total value is of applications to the European Commission to allow state aids that have been(a) approved, (b) approved with modifications, (c) declined and (d) considered but deemed not to fall within state aid rules, broken down by member state, for the last five years. [189519]
§ Mr. AlexanderComprehensive information on spending on state aids is published by the European Commission and is available on the Commission's website at http://europa.eu.int/comm/competitio/state_aid/scoreboarch/.
The latest report includes information on the value of state aid spending in 2002, trends in spending between 1998 and 2002, and the percentage and numbers of cases approved or rejected by the Commission between 2001 and 2003, all broken down by member state. The report does not include full statistics on the number of applications approved with modifications, or considered but found not to fall within state aid rules, or a breakdown of their value, however, and we do not have independent estimates of these across EU member states.