§ Mr. Hendersonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many offers of selective financial assistance under section 7 of the Industry Act have been made to industry in Scotland since 30 April 1979; and what was the estimated total cost of the projects concerned, the total value of grants and the total number of jobs associated with them.
§ Mr. Allan StewartA total of 934 offers of selective financial assistance were made to industry in Scotland between 30 April 1979 and 30 November 1983. Total project costs were £1,958 million, the total value of the assistance was £202 million and the total number of associated jobs was 89,789.
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§ Mr. Allan StewartThe information is not available in the precise form requested because the method of counting unemployed persons changed in November 1982. The following table shows the number of unemployed claimants in October 1983 and 1982 with percentage comparisons for the prior years which take account of the discontinuity in the method of compiling the statistics.