§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) if he will publish in theOfficial Report the date, grant or assistance, and purpose of each application for financial assistance made by Palatine Graphic Arts Company Limited, Liverpool in each year from 1980 to date;
(2) pursuant to his reply of 4 July, Official Report, columns 110–12, concerning Palatine Graphic Arts Company Limited, Liverpool, on which dates the six jobs created under the grant approved on 15 December 1986 became vacant.
§ Mr. Atkins[holding answer 17 July 1989]: The financial assistance made by the DTI to Palatine Graphic Arts Co. Ltd., Liverpool in each year from 1980 to date was as follows:
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Regional Development Grant I For the provision of approved plant, machinery and building works £ 1980 Nil 1981 Nil 1982 1,030 1983 636 1984 10,664 1985 21,146 1986 55,419 1987–89 Nil
Regional Development Grant II For the provision of assets and creation of jobs within approved projects £ 1980–86 Nil 1987 26,840 1988 6,471 1989 75,000
Regional Selective Assistance For the purchase of new equipment and the creation or safeguarding of jobs £ 1986 6,461 Six of the jobs which comprised part of an approved project under the regional development grant II scheme became vacant, five of these became vacant on 5 May 1988 and one on 5 June 1989. It should be noted that however the period of conditions relating to these six jobs expired on 27 June 1988.