§ Sir Nicholas BonsorTo ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 4 November to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, Central (Mr. Cousins),Official Report, columns 313–15, if he will list those proposals he received for European Commission funding under the Perifra II scheme concerned with retraining and resettlement of former members of the armed forces and their families, or civilians displaced as a result of reduced defence expenditure, identifying those proposals subsequently forwarded to Brussels, those which were subsequently approved and the estimated expenditure in each case; what is the total expenditure for this programme throughout the European Community; and if he will make a statement.
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§ Mr. SainsburyA proposal from the Royal British Legion was the only such proposal received for the second year of the Perifra scheme. The costings of individual grant applications are not normally published as they may contain commercially sensitive information.
This proposal was transmitted to the European Commission, and was awarded 1,969,000 ecu in grant towards the design and construction of a training centre. The total expenditure on Perifra committed in 1993 throughout the Community was 50 million ecu.