HC Deb 30 November 1988 vol 142 cc270-1W
Mr. Wigley

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the dates of each of the privatisation sales since 1979, together with the amount of money received from each separate sale.

Mr. Norman Lamont

Moneys received together with dates of sales up to the end of 1987.88 are as follows:

Mr. Brooke

Receipts from the Community's structural funds are taken into account each year when the United Kingdom's public expenditure plans are set, thus enabling public spending as a whole—and specifically expenditure on programmes to which the receipts relate—to be fixed and maintained at higher levels than would otherwise have been possible. As regards individual projects and programmes financed by structural fund grants, it is a condition of Community assistance that member states pay a specified share of the total cost from domestic funds.