§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give the total expenditure by local 155W authorities for each region in England on regional industrial assistance for each year since 1979 in cash and real terms using 1984 as the base year.
§ Mr. Waldegrave[pursuant to his answer, 15 January 1985, c. 99]: Based on returns provided to the Department
£ million 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 Cash terms Cost terms* Cash terms Cost terms* Cash terms Cost terms* Cash terms Cost terms* Cash terms Cost terms* South East Region 14.2 21.5 23.2 29.7 15.2 17.8 26.2 28.6 20.7 21.7 South West Region 3.4 5.2 6.0 7.7 3.2 3.8 7.8 8.5 5.2 5.5 Eastern Region 2.4 3.7 2.7 3.4 1.4 1.7 3.5 3.8 3.8 4.0 West Midland Region 6.3 9.7 10.8 13.9 9.4 11.0 17.6 19.2 9.5 10.0 East Midland Region 6.9 10.5 9.1 11.6 6.8 7.9 12.4 13.6 9.6 10.0 North Western Region 11.3 17.2 14.8 19.0 13.1 15.2 20.0 21.8 17.8 18.6 Yorkshire and Humberside Region 3.6 5.5 10.9 14.0 8.3 9.7 19.1 20.9 15.8 16.6 Northern Region 7.7 11.7 12.3 15.7 9.9 11.4 18.0 19.7 19.5 20.4 TOTAL ALL ENGLISH REGIONS 55.9 85.1 89.8 115.2 67.3 78.5 124.4 136.1 101.9 106.8 * i.e. deflated by the change in the GDP deflator to 1984–85 cost terms. Local industries benefit from expenditure by local authorities under a wide range of other expenditure headings. However it is not possible to identify these benefits separately.