§ Mr. Leslie Huckfieldasked the President of the Board of Trade (1) how many applications for industrial development certificates have been made for the North Warwickshire areas of Nuneaton, Bedworth and Atherstone for each of the years from 1955 to 1967; how many have 136W been granted in full; and how many have been granted in part;
(2) how many applications for industrial development certificates in the North Warwickshire areas of Nuneaton, Bedworth and Atherstone in each of the years from 1955 to 1967 were from firms already established in these areas who wished to expand; how many of these were granted; how many were from firms outside these areas; and how many of these were granted.
§ Mr. DarlingIt is not the practice of the Board of Trade to publish statistics of the number of applications which have been received for industrial development certificates. I regret that the other information is not available in exactly the form asked for but the following table sets out the number of industrial development certificate applications approved in the Nuneaton, Bedworth and Atherstone areas.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATES Applications approved (a) in the Employment Exchange Areas of Nuneaton and Bedworth (b) Number of Schemes Total Expansion existing sites Transfer or expansion on new sites To firm who wished to move into the area 1955 … Not available 1956 … 10 5 5 Nill 1957 … 8 5 3 1958 … 7 2 5 1959 … 7 5 2 1960 … 6 4 2 1961 … 5 3 1 1 1962 … 6 3 2 1 1963 … 7 5 2 Nill 1964 … 6 4 2 1965 … 2 1 1 1966 … 3 3 Nil 1967 … 9 3 6 NOTES:
(a) Schemes over 5,000 sq. ft.
(b) Nuneaton M.B., Bedworth U.D., Atherston R.D., Rugby R.D. (part) and Meriden R.D. (part).