§ Mr. BoyesTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will publish in theOfficial Report the names of all those companies which have received moneys from the regional development grant and regional selective assistance in excess of £25,000 since 1978–79 in the borough of Sunderland.
Mr. Kenneth ClarkThe information requested is only available at disproportionate cost. However, details of 147W grant recipients above certain thresholds are published in British Business. The dates of publication of regional development grant payments were as follows:
Publication date 1978–79 11 August 1978 Q1 3 November 1978 Q2 16 February 1979 Q3 18 May 1979 Q4 1979–80 19 October 1979 Q1 7 December 1979 Q2 22 February 1980 Q3 6 June 1980 Q4 1980–81 29 August 1980 Q1 28 November 1980 Q2 13 February 1981 Q3 15 May 1981 Q4 1981–82 7 August 1981 Q1 6 November 1981 Q2 12 February 1982 Q3 7 May 1982 Q4 1982–83 13 August 1982 Q1 29 October 1982 Q2 4 February 1983 Q3 6 May 1983 Q4 1983–84 29 July 1983 Q1 4 November 1983 Q2 3 February 1984 Q3 25 May 1984 Q4 1984–85 31 August 1984 Q1 9 November 1984 Q2 15 February 1985 Q3 10 May 1985 Q4 1985–86 16 August 1985 Q1 17 January 1986 Q2 11 April 1986 Q3 20 June 1986 Q4 1986–87 19 September 1986 Q1 5 December 1986 Q2 10 April 1987 Q3 10 July 1987 Q4 1987–88 4 September 1987 Q1 18 December 1987 Q2 Notes: Details published are:
(i) original RDG scheme: individual payments which exceed £25,000;
(ii) revised RDG scheme: payments to individual undertakings in a Travel-to-Work-Area which cumulatively exceed £25,000 in any one quarter.
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Offers of Regional Selective Assistance were published in the following editions of British Business: Date 1978–79 18 August 1978 Q1
Date 24 November 1978 Q2 9 March 1979 Q3 15 June 1979 Q4 1979–80 14 September 1979 Q1 21 December 1979 Q2 29 February 1980 Q3 11 June 1980 Q4 1980–81 15 August 1980 Q1 5 December 1980 Q2 6 March 1981 Q3 24 July 1981 Q4 1981–82 25 September 1981 Q1 4 December 1981 Q2 26 March 1982 Q3 28 May 1982 Q4 1982–83 24 September 1982 Q1 17 December 1982 Q2 15 April 1983 Q3 24 June 1983 Q4 1983–84 18 November 1983 Q1 17 February 1984 Q2 6 July 1984 Q3 13 July 1984 Q4 1984–85 14 September 1984 Q1 23 November 1984 Q2 22 February 1985 Q3 28 June 1985 Q4 1985–86 30 August 1985 Q1 29 November 1985 Q2 28 February 1986 Q3 6 June 1986 Q4 1986–87 26 September 1986 Q1 28 November 1986 Q2 27 March 1987 Q3 19 June 1987 Q4 1987–88 28 August 1987 Q1 22 November 1987 Q2 Note: Details show offers of £5,000 or more and are published after a first payment has been made.
§ Mr. BoyesTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will publish the amount of regional development grant and regional selective assistance grants made in(a) county of Tyne and Wear (b) new town industrial estate of Washington and (c) Sunderland borough council area for each year 1978–79 to the latest date available.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe information is not available in the form requested but the following data can be provided:
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£ million 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 11987–88 Regional development grants Tyne and Wear County 8.6 8.2 12.6 18.0 23.4 16.5 13.1 13.6 27.7 21.2 Houghton/Washington2 0.8 0.9 0.6 0.9 0.8 1.3 8.7 3.3 7.2 2.5 Sunderland3 2.1 2.4 2.2 3.6 3.7 3.9 3.3 4.5 9.8 4.3 Regional selective assistance Tyne and Wear County 3.6 3.3 5.3 8.2 10.6 5.5 4.0 4.7 5.3 5.9 Houghton/Washington2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.9 0.9 1.5 0 7 Sunderland3 1.2 0.7 0.6 1.1 1.0 0.8 1.4 1.4 1.7 1.4 1 Provisional to end-December 1987. 2 Defined as the Parliamentary Constituencies of Houghton and Washington, except in respect of the original regional development grants scheme for which constituency level data are not available. Instead data have been given for the employment office areas of Houghton and Washington for this scheme. 3 Defined as the Local Authority District of Sunderland, except in respect of the original regional development grant scheme for which district level data are not available. Instead data have been given for the employment office areas of Houghton, Southwich, Sunderland and Washington for this scheme.