2. Mr. Bob Brownasked the President of the Board of Trade what plans he has for the encouragement of firms by giving of additional incentives or other methods to bring into the Northern Region their research and development departments and their administrative departments as well as their manufacturing activities; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. DarlingI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Consett (Mr. David Watkins) on 26th April. The introduction of the Regional Employment Premium will further strengthen the considerable inducements already available to firms to move their manufacturing activities together with research and development departments into development areas.—[Vol. 745, c. 1579.]