§ Mr. Litterickasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will publish in the Official Report a list of those firms exhibiting at the recent military equipment exhibition at Aldershot which have received public financial aid during the last financial year for which this information is available, together with the amounts of public money each organisation received; and what proportion the total sum represents as a proportion of all the moneys paid out by his Department to private sector firms during that year.
Mr. Alan WilliamsFinancial assistance to industry is given under a wide variety of programmes and for many different purposes. Records are not kept of the total amounts received by individual firms from all sources and I regret therefore that the information requested is not available.