§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all the urban development grant projects approved by his Department during 1985, stating for each project the total amount of grant, the percentage the grant comprised, the total cost of the project, the name of the public or private sector participants within each project, and the cost from public funds for each new job created within each project.
§ Mr. AncramUrban development grant is available only in England and Wales. In Scotland, the Scottish Development Agency operates an analogous local enterprise grants for urban project—LEG-UP—scheme, under which financial assistance is given normally on the basis that part or all of the support from public funds should be repaid in due course.
For reasons of commercial confidentiality it is not our practice to provide information on individual projects in the precise form requested. I have, however, arranged for a list of projects approved in principle in 1985 to be placed in the Library.
In total, offers of asistance amounting to some £6.9 million were approved in 1985, representing 18.3 percent. of the estimated total cost of supported projects. The estimated cost from public funds per new job expected to be created in all commercial and industrial projects is £3,600. This assumes that all the approved assistance is taken up and none repaid, and excludes from consideration any jobs retained or construction jobs created.