§ Baroness Seearasked Her Majesty's Government:
How much the English Industrial Estates Corporation has invested since 1st April 1980 in small workshop premises under 2,500 square feet in the more heavily assisted areas.
The Minister of State, Department of Employment (The Earl of Gowrie)In the period from 1st April 1980 to 30th May 1981 the English Industrial Estates Corporation spent
£401,300 on building workshops below 2,500 sq. ft.£1,371,000 on building small factories below 2,500 sq. ft. (these are built to a higher specification than workshops).In addition the Development Commission spent £1,891,000 on small factories which the EIEC built and now manages. The corporation's expenditure is confined to the assisted areas and is concentrated in 76WA the travel-to-work areas with the highest levels of unemployment.