HC Deb 24 January 1972 vol 829 c327W
Mr. Hardy

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many of his Department's advertisements have been published in national and in Yorkshire area newspapers which were aimed at encouraging the transfer of existing or proposed industrial activity to other parts of the United Kingdom.

Mr. Anthony Grant

Advertisements about the Assisted Areas have appeared over 300 times in selected national and regional newspapers and periodicals since 1st January, 1971: six of these were in two Yorkshire newspapers. Their main purpose has been to influence industrialists to put significant expansion as well as new projects in the Assisted Areas including the Yorkshire Intermediate Areas.