5. Mr. WilliamTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many projects have been supported by regional assistance over the past year.
§ Mr. NewtonMy Department expects to have supported in excess of 7,500 projects through regional assistance during 1988–89. Specifically, the Department has made 1,275 offers of regional selective assistance and 920 offers of regional enterprise grant, approved 5,380 projects under the revised regional development grant scheme and made payments under the original regional development grant scheme in respect of some 270 projects. All these figures are provisional.