§ Mr. McTaggartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will calculate the amount of grants given by his Department to private industry in the Glasgow travel-to-work area for the past 12 months; and how this compares with the United Kingdom as a whole.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherDuring 1980, 52 offers of grant totalling £5.9 million were made to companies in the Glasgow travel-to-work area under section 7 of the Industry Act 1972. During the same period, 738 offers of grant totalling £139 million were made in Great Britain under section 7. This is the most comprehensive and recent information available on grants to industry, but it relates to Great Britain rather than the United Kingdom and while almost all of it is to private companies the figures include a small amount of assistance to public sector bodies.