§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what was the total estimated expenditure on the business development consultancy initiative in each of the years 1988–89, 1989–90 and 1990–1991 for England, Scotland and Wales.
DTI Region1/Country (a) No. of applications received (b) No. of applications approved for consultancy (c) DTI Expenditure on completed consultancies (£ '000)
(d) Estimated expenditure on outstanding consultancies (£ '000)
North East 659 529 282 1,125 North West 2,093 1,783 1,159 4,115 Yorkshire and Humberside 1,351 990 671 2,234 West Midlands 1,399 993 672 2,497 East Midlands 785 657 400 1,594 South West 1,337 852 353 1,498 South East: Cambridge 943 688 247 1,147 London 1,432 1,124 582 1,918 Reading 772 631 224 1,322 Reigate 724 580 282 983 Scotland 1,105 903 724 1,770 Wales 861 622 288 1,110 TOTAL 13,461 10,352 5,884 21,313 1 Data is collected for DTI regions and for Scotland and Wales. DTI regions are similar to standard economic regions except that DTI north west includes Cumbria and the High Peak district which are in the north and east midlands standard economic regions respectively, and DTI south east includes the East Anglia standard economic region.