§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the firms which have established themselves, or are in the process of establishing themselves, in enterprise zones in Northern Ireland; and how many employees each firm has, or will have, in the zones.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe second report of the enterprise zone monitoring study published in April 1983 shows that the number of firms and jobs established in the Belfast enterprise zone between 1 June 1981 and 31 December 1982 was as follows:
Zone Firms Jobs Belfast inner city 32 114 Belfast north foreshore 3 92 Total 35 206 Information about employment in individual firms was gathered in confidence and the figure about jobs in each firm cannot be released. I will, however, let my hon. Friend have a list of firms newly established in the Belfast enterprise zone up to the latest available date.