§ Mr. Prescottasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list the total value of offers of regional assistance made to companies for each region of the United Kingdom in the last month for which statistics are available.
§ Mr. MacGregor[pursuant to his reply, 28 July 1982, c. 535]: Selective assistance has been made available to companies under section 7 of the Industry Act in May 1982 as follows:
Offer Value £ million Scotland 3.8 Wales 6.8 North East 1.0 North West 2.1 Yorkshire/Humberside 1.2 South West 0.1 East Midlands 1.3 Total GB 16.3 The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland offered assistance of £2.4 million in May 1982 under the Industry Development Acts (NI) 1966 and 1971.
I regret that figures for the payment of regional development grants are not available in the form requested. Payments of RDGs between 1 April and 30 June 1982 were as follows:
£ million Scotland 26.9 Wales 24.2 Northern 16.4 Yorkshire/Humberside 7.3 East Midlands 1.2 South West 2.1 North West 18.1 Total GB 96.2
Belfast region—Expenditure in period 1979–80 to 1981–82 Period District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 District 5 District 6 District 7 £ £ £ £ £ £ £ New Build 1979–80 2,095,992 2,456,410 1,153,570 722,764 1,674,067 3,999,924 1,236,909 (Payments to Contractors) 1980–81 1,588,694 3,218,870 2,500,647 1,854,736 3,069,262 5,117,101 2,630,782 1981–82 2,392,255 6,198,929 3,833,453 3,042,767 3,098,688 4,765,402 3,481,076 6,076,941 11,874,209 7,487,670 5,620,267 7,842,017 13,882,427 7,348,767 Rehabilitation/Improvement/Modernisation—Payments (includes purchase of dwellings, professional fees etc. 1979–80 1,024,090 908,380 685,038 1,291,978 911,987 1,814,097 2,591,210 1980–81 1,300,033 1,854,190 646,538 2,722,134 2,200,029 2,466,857 2,498,941 1981–82 1,290,278 2,944,169 1,213,811 3,730,491 2,814,195 2,593,706 2,917,966 3,614,401 5,706,739 2,545,387 7,744,603 5,926,211 6,874,660 8,008,117 Grants—Payment to applicants(excludes repair and insulation grants 1979–80 572,460 685,018 834,347 367,613 289,470 340,247 1,372,684 1980–81 631,953 1,062,468 1,175,598 411,426 313,373 714,464 1,712,601 1981–82 578,576 1,714,055 997,378 390,668 426,349 965,049 1,858,792 1,782,989 3,461,541 3,007,323 1,169,707 1,029,192 2,019,760 4,944,077 Response and Planned 1979–80 1,044,816 581,360 926,373 552,558 857,790 576,467 163,476 Maintenance 1980–81 884,423 474,899 1,213,843 601,763 1,010,767 661,445 229,315 1981–82 1,032,303 639,194 1,527,932 722,088 1,074,470 648,712 433,623 2,961,542 1,695,453 3,668,148 1,876,409 2,943,027 1,886,624 826,414