§ Mr. Emeryasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list the total amount of aid given by his Department to industry out of public funds, listed under whatever categories of aid are appropriate for each of the last 10 years and for that part of the present year available, in actual money terms and expressed in financial terms of value of money in the first year of the series; and how many companies or organisations each year received this aid.
§ Mr. MacGregor[pursuant to his reply, 18 February 1981, c. 137]: Aid provided at outturn prices by the Department under three main headings runs as follows:
§ Mr. GrayThe information requested is given in the table below for the period since 1974, when records were first kept. The figures for 1980 have not yet been finalised and will, as normal, be published in due course.
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Total value of orders £m United Kingdom per cent. 1974 1,279 40 1975 1,185 52 1976 1,041 57 1977 1,295 62 1978 1,574 66 1979 2,679 79
§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Energy (1) what is his estimate of the net value, in £ sterling, of oil and gas reserves discovered in the North Sea to date at 1981 prices; and what are his Department's projections for this figure for each year up to 1990 at current prices;
(2) if he will publish a list of the percentage uplift of oil that the British National Oil Company has taken of the total production of each North Sea oilfield in each year since the agreements were formalised.