HC Deb 25 May 1988 vol 134 cc176-7W
Mr. Hood

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what, for each year since 1975, was the percentage change in the balance of trade in manufacturing goods of Belgium, Denmark, France, Holland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, West Germany and Japan.

Mr. Alan Clark

As the sign of the balance can vary from year to year, it is not appropriate to measure changes in the balance of trade in percentage terms. The balances in US dollars are in the table:

of the total budget; and what they were in cash terms.

Mr. Atkins

Expenditure on regional development grant by English region, and as a percentage of the RDG total for England, in the financial years 1979–80 to 1987–88 is as follows:

£ million (percentage of England total in brackets)
1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–882
East Midlands 2.4 (1.1) 3.2 (1.2) 7.2 (2.0) 8.8 (3.1) 8.2 (3.7) 3.8 (1.8) 4.4 (2.6) 8.4 (3.3) 7.1 (5.1)
North East 107.0(51.0) 101.1(36.9) 109.7(31.2) 91.4(32.6) 68.8(30.7) 61.6(29.5) 46.4(27.9) 89.8(35.3) 57.6(41.4)
North West 74.1(35.3) 122.2(44.6) 177.5(50.5) 133.1(47.4) 115.5(51.6) 107.4(51.4) 83.0(49.8) 113.7(44.7) 49.7(35.7)
South West 5.0 (2.4) 8.5 (3.1) 10.3 (2.9) 11.0 (3.9) 7.8 (3.5) 9.5 (4.5) 8.6 (5.2) 15.3 (6.0) 7.0 (5.0)
West Midlands 1— 0.1 (0.04) 1— 1— — — — — —
Yorkshire and Humberside 21.5(10.2) 38.7(14.1) 47.1(13.4) 36.4(13.0) 23.5(10.5) 26.8(12.8) 24.2(14.5) 27.1(10.7) 17.8(12.8)
Total RDG expenditure in England 210.0 273.8 351.8 280.7 223.8 209.1 166.6 254.3 139.2
1 Negligible (that is, less than £50,000).
2 Provisional.

Mr. Blair

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what was the level of regional development grant allocated to each of the counties of Cleveland, Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear, for each financial year from 1979–80 to 1987–88, in cash terms.

£ million
1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88
Cleveland 61.6 43.7 43.7 22.8 22.6 20.6 10.6 30.0 15.5
Cumbria 15.4 16.5 34.1 35.8 32.5 25.5 19.7 10.8 3.7
Durham 7.3 7.3 9.4 8.3 4.6 7.1 5.2 11.3 9.5
Northumberland 2.5 4.3 5.9 5.4 2.2 3.1 0.9 2.1 3.4
Tyne and Wear 8.2 12.6 18.0 23.4 16.5 13.1 13.6 27.8 22.3

Note:

1987–88 data are provisional.