§ Mr. Kilfedderasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) if he will make a statement on the impact of EEC funds for Northern Ireland on the cash limits imposed on each Northern Ireland Government Department for the current financial year;
(2) what moneys have been made available to Northern Ireland for public and private sector projects, respectively, from EEC Social and Regional Development Funds, and the Common Agricultural Fund; and to what extent the money has represented an annual increase in the total allocation to the Northern Ireland Consolidated Fund, to the Northern Ireland departments or to the private sector concerned.
§ Mr. ConcannonThe total amounts which have been made available to Northern Ireland for public and private sector projects from the EEC Social (ESF), Regional Development (ERDF) and Common Agricultural (FEOGA) Funds are as follows:
limits, but it is not possible readily to attribute this to individual programmes.
§ Mr. Kilfedderasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the total sum of money brought to the credit of the Treasury with regard to specifically Northern Irish schemes which attracted EEC grant in each of the last three financial years.
§ Mr. ConcannonThe figures are as follows:
1974–5 1975–6 1976–7 £3,362,650 £2,894,381 £13,635,438