§ Mr. Dewarasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will state the total amounts offered to firms in the Garscadden constituency under regional and industrial grants for each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. ButcherI regret the information is not available for all regional and industrial grants because it would be too costly to transfer the historic records to the computer data base. For the same reason a manual search to match addresses is also ruled out. However, the new regional development grants are being recorded and regional selective assistance (RSA) under section 7 of the Industrial Development Act is available for past years. The details for RSA in the Glasgow, Garscadden constituency are as follows:
Value of offers £'000 1975–76 — 1976–77 24 1977–78 — 1978–79 — 1979–80 701 1980–81 — 1981–82 — 1982–83 195 1983–84 85 1984–85 2,350
§ Mr. Dewarasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give details of the grants and loans under the regional and industrial policy in the last year within the Garscadden constituency referred to in his letter to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden dated 27 November.
§ Mr. ButcherIt is not the practice to disclose details of financial assistance given to individual companies other than in accordance with the arrangements announced by the then Secretary of State for Industry on 31 July 1974. Details are also withheld where it is thought that an432W Department's manual "Driving" and the Department's pamphlet DL68 "Your Driving Test". Copies of all these publications are held in the Library.