HC Deb 18 April 1990 vol 170 cc964-5W
Mr. Gill

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what grants in aid have been paid to Unigate plc in respect of poultry-processing plants.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

St. Ivel Farm Foods Ltd. (formerly Unigate Poultry Ltd.), a subsidiary of Unigate plc, is receiving regional aid in respect of a poultry processing plant at Scunthorpe.

Payments of regional development grant towards the project have totalled £3,729,000 to date. The company also accepted an offer of £10,558,000 of regional selective assistance and the first payment of grant under that offer was made in the quarter January to March 1989.

Details of the RDG payments and the RSA offer were published in British Business in accordance with standing arrangements.

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