HC Deb 05 July 1989 vol 156 c158W
Mr. Madden

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what public financial assistance has been paid to Coats Viyella in the United Kingdom in each year since 1979; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Atkins

Information on payments of Government financial assistance to individual companies is commercially confidential except to the extent that it has been published inBritish Business under standing arrangements. The following information has been published in British Business on financial assistance to Coats Viyella since it was incorporated in April 1986:

£
Payments of RDG I Nil
Payments of RDG II Nil
Offers of RSA 1500,000
Offers of Section 8 assistance Nil
1 Published in 1987.

This information relates to Coats Viyella plc: information on assistance paid or offered to its subsidiary companies could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.