Business Expansion Scheme

HC Deb 06 March 1991 vol 187 cc164-5W

Mr. Nicholas Brown

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer for each of the years of the existence of the business expansion scheme, what was(a) the regional distribution of BES funds and the associated cost to the Exchequer, (b) the distribution of BES investments by two-digit SIC and (c) the average size of investment.

Mr. Maude

[holding answer 25 February 1991]: Information on the companies receiving investments through the business expansion scheme is published in chapter 7 of "Inland Revenue Statistics 1990". Further information that is readily available is as follows:

	£ thousand
1983–84	147
1984–85	183
1985–86	224
1986–87	222
1987–88	245

	£ thousand
1988–89	168
11989–90	240
1 Provisional.