§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Prime Minister what benefits have been brought to(a) Doncaster and (b) South Yorkshire from membership of the European Community.
§ The Prime MinisterThe European regional development fund has made grants during the last four years of some £53 million to South Yorkshire, of which about £11 million went to Doncaster. Low interest loans worth £750,000 for Doncaster and £13 million for South Yorkshire have been obtained from the European Coal and Steel Community. In the last three years the European social fund made grants of some £1.65 million to Doncaster, within £11.4 million for South Yorkshire as a whole.