§ Mr. Shersbyasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will now publish in the Official Report the amount of Government grants given to the 20 leading companies for the year ended 31st December 1974.
§ Mr. BennAs I said in reply to a Question from my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) on 31st July 1974—[Vol. 878, c.371–2.]—I am instituting a system of regular quarterly publication of information about regional development grants and regional selective assistance to individual firms. The first of these quarterly lists, which will relate to payments in the last quarter of 1974, will be published in the first half of this year.