§ Mrs. Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, in the application of import/output analyses in the field of the import content of industrial output and export levies, what special steps are taken in the continuing programme of his Department to assess the position of the Scottish economy in this matter.
Mr. Alan WilliamsMuch experimental work is being done at several Scottish and other universities and research institutions, with the help of Government Departments, to prepare regional accounts and to improve our42W grants paid in the modernising of old sewerage beds and schemes.
§ Mr. SkeffingtonThe following figures for grants paid in England over the past four financial years are set out by reference to the appropriate legislation. They include some grants paid as capital amounts or as advances of capital amounts, and also (in regard to rural schemes) some periodic instalments of capital amounts together with interest. In general, the schemes assisted are new ones; a few may include some work of modernisation but no separate figures for this are available.
understanding of the interaction of the various parts of the economy. The official input-output tables relating to the United Kingdom as a whole are for the present the only tables of an adequate level of reliability to serve for purposes of policy determination.