§ Mr. Hooleyasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the number of applications for industrial development certificates made in 1965, 1966 and 1967 for the Yorkshire and Humberside Region, the number refused, and the amount of industrial building approved in each of those years, together with the corresponding figures for the Northern and West Midland Regions.
§ Mr. DarlingThe total area for which industrial development certificates were approved in the Yorkshire and Humberside, in the Northern and in the West Midlands Regions in the years 1965–67 was:
Member for Chigwell (Mr. Biggs-Davison) on 25th October of last year, Her Majesty's Government strongly supports all efforts to persuade British buyers to meet more of their requirements from competitive home production. One of the chief effects of devaluation will be to make British goods more competitive with goods from overseas, and it is important that British firms, both as manufacturers and buyers, should take advantage of this opportunity. They will continue to be helped in doing this by the work of the Economic Development Committees.—[Vol. 734, c. 823.]