HC Deb 29 June 1989 vol 155 cc516-7W
Mr. McLeish

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will give the total amount of expenditure in regional development grant between 1 April 1988 and 31 March 1989 and for each of the region and island authorities;

(2) if he will give the total amount of expenditure on enterprise grants between 1 April 1988 and 31 March 1989 and for each of the region and island authorities;

(3) if he will give the total amount of expenditure on regional selective assistance between 1 April 1988 and 31 March 1989 and for each of the region and island authorities.

Mr. Lang

Comprehensive figures in the form requested are not available for expenditure under the old regional development grant scheme. Expenditures on each of the revised regional development grant (RDG2) scheme, regional enterprise grants (REG) and regional selective assistance (RSA) in the period 1 April 1988 to 31 March 1989 are given in the table.

Region Regional development grants £ million Regional enterprise assistance £ million Regional selective assistance £ million
Borders — — *
Central * * 2.0
Dumfries and Galloway * — 0.8
Fife * — 3.7
Grampian — — *
Lothian — — *
Highland 4.9 * 6.8
Strathclyde 41.6 0.2 22.4
Tayside 4.0 * 1.8
TOTAL 50.8 0.3 38.0

Notes:

(i) Regional development grants and regional enterprise grants are available in development areas. Regional selective assistance is available in development and intermediate areas.

(ii) Starred entries are suppressed to avoid disclosure of information relating to individual businesses.

Mr. McLeish

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will give the total number of applications(a) received and (b) approved for regional development grants between 1 April 1988 and 31 March 1989 and for each of the region and island authorities;

(2) if he will give the total number of applications (a) received and (b) approved for enterprise grants between 1 April 1988 and 31 March 1989 and for each of the region and island authorities;

(3) if he will give the total number of applications (a) received and(b) approved for regional selective assistance between 1 April 1988 and 31 March 1989 and for each of the region and island authorities.

Region RDG2 REG RSA
Approvals Applications Offers Applications Offers
Central * * * * *
Dumfries and Galloway 6 — — * *
Fife * * * 29 24
Highland — — — * *
Lothian 176 29 * 27 26
Strathclyde 2,742 394 195 152 131
Tayside 218 31 15 29 24
Western Isles — — — * *
Location undecided — * — — —
Total 3,148 481 226 255 221

Notes: (i) RDG2 and REG are available in development areas. RSA is available in development and intermediate areas.

(ii) Starred figures are suppressed to avoid disclosure of information relating to individual businesses.

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