§ Mr. Ray Powellasked the Secretary of State for Wales, further to the reply regarding enterprise zones, Official Report, 12 July, c. 308, why information about employment in individual firms was gathered in confidence and why he is not able to release the figures about jobs in each firm newly established.
§ Mr. Stradling ThomasIt has been the practice of successive Governments not to divulge commercial information which individual firms have provided in confidence.