§ Mrs. Clwydasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list Wales's share, in percentage terms, of the British allocation of the European regional development fund in each year since 1975; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsThe commitments to Welsh projects by the European regional development fund since 1975 as compared with the United Kingdom as a whole are as follows:—
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*1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 Total United Kingdom (£ million) 150.4 99.7 162.8 153.4 193.7 245.7 243.5 345.2 1594–5 Wales (£ million) 21.1 17.1 21.7 32.5 24.8 47.3 45.1 56.3 265.9 Approximate Welsh percentage of United Kingdom commitment 14 17 13 21 13 19 18 16 17 * Individual United Kingdom figures for the years 1975 to 1977 are not available. For 1985 Wales has to date received commitment amounting to £5.4 million under the fund; this compares with £81 million for the United Kingdom as a whole. However I look forward to the Commission approving further substantial tranches of aid to Wales from the fund in the course of this year and next on the basis that bids totalling over £87 million in grant already submitted to Brussels by the Welsh Office are awaiting decision.
Provision for spending by each health authority in Wales at 1985 prices 1985–86 prices £000's 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86* Clwyd 63,640 66,668 75,118 75,886 76,832 75,100 79,463 83,025 East Dyfed 53,598 55,284 58,942 60,709 46,948 49,205 50,104 49,558 Pembrokeshire — — — — 15,245 15,783 17,348 17,384 Gwent 82,281 85,831 93,021 93,424 94,719 96,529 98,070 97,836 Gwynedd 37,071 39,304 42,456 42,877 43,835 44,155 49,412 48,151 Mid Glamorgan 96,379 97,055 103,857 106,741 106,179 107,517 113,547 116,623 Powys 18,650 19,298 20,672 21,471 21,726 22,202 22,819 22,497 South Glamorgan 119,037 115,337 125,320 129,319 130,561 128,449 132,049 128,560 West Glamorgan 63,777 65,289 71,153 72,736 74,041 74,146 77,077 82,352 Central Reserves — — — — — — — 10,938 TOTAL 534,433 544,066 590,539 603,163 610,086 613.086 639,889 656,924 * Provisional. Notes
(1) The allocations have been adjusted to take account of general inflation as measured by the GDP market price deflator.
(2) Prior to 1982–83 the Dyfed area health authority covered the whole county.
(3) The figures (other than for 1985–86) reflect the end-of-year notified allocations to health authorities for capital and revenue purposes. They do not include any provisions for family practitioner services since expenditure on these services is demand determined and since family practitioner committees became independent of health authorities with effect from 1 April 1985.
(4) The allocations to authorities for 1985–86 are provisional since they reflect only those resources which have been allocated to date. A further £10.9 million is currently being held in central reserves for further developments in the services provided by health authorities. It will be released during the remainder of the financial year.
(5) The figures include both recurrent and non-recurrent provisions.