§ Mr. Wareingasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list (a) regional development grant payments of over £25,000 to firms in the county of Merseyside between June 1979 and September 1983, inclusive, (b) those firms in receipt of such regional development grants which subsequently closed their plants in Merseyside, (c) the number of redundancies declared by firms in receipt of regional development grants during the same period and (d) the number of additional jobs created by the firms listed in (a).
§ Mr. Trippier[pursuant to his reply, 24 October 1982, c. 23]: Regional development grant payments of over £25,000 made between 1979 and June 1983 were published in "British Business" on 19 October 1979, 7 December 1979, 22 February 1980, 6 June 1980, 29 August 1980, 28 November 1980, 13 February 1981, 15 May 1981, 7 August 1981, 6 November 1981, 12 February 1982, 7 May 1982, 13 August 1982, 29 October 1982, 4 February 1983, 6 May 1983 and 29 July 1983. To provide the other information requested would require a disproportionate use of resources.