Regional Development Grants

HC Deb 22 June 1988 vol 135 cc586-7W

Mr. Alan Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the monthly regional development grant applications on which he based his 15 month total quoted in his statement on the Valleys Initiative.

Mr. Peter Walker

[holding answer 20 June 1988]: The following numbers of applications are assessed to derive from the valleys programme area:

Date	Number of applications
1987
January	45
February	51
March	70
April	48
May	50
June	43
July	58
August	42
September	36
October	62
November	50
December	98
1988
January	117
February	91
March	472
	1,333

The review of the first quarter of 1988 serves to validate what I said at Welsh Grand Committee on 2 December 1987. Our regional policy will expand not contract.