Regional Offices

HC Deb 22 June 1992 vol 210 cc62-3W

Mr. Milburn

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will provide a table of expenditure showing the running costs of each regional office of his Department and the cost of running sub-regional offices aggregated by region, and with Greater London shown separately, and excluding the funding programmes operated by the offices for each year from 1987–88(a) at current prices and (b) at 1987–88 prices.

Mr. Sainsbury

The information requested is shown in the following table. Greater London is part of the south east region. No separate figures for Greater London are available.

per cent.) is part intermediate area and part non assisted area. In working population terms, approximately 15 per cent. have development area status and a further 20 per cent. have intermediate area status.

The consultation paper we have issued made it clear that the coverage of the assisted areas is unlikely to increase. We have not decided, in advance of representations received under the consultation arrangements, the precise extent of the new map or the split between the two categories. These will in due course have to be agreed with the European Commission.

Mr. Milburn

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will provide a table of expenditure on regional financial assistance to each development area and intermediate area in the Northern region in each year since the last revision of the assisted areas held in 1984 (a) at current prices and (b) at 1984 prices.

Mr. Sainsbury

Expenditure on regional financial assistance in the Northern region broken down into development areas and intermediate areas from 1984–85 at

Regional Financial Assistance
	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91	1991–92
Northern region at current prices
DA	106.1	84.4	116.0	84.2	113.8	97.6	63.4	45.3
IA	1.1	1.1	4.4	2.5	3.6	2.2	3.3	1.2
Northern region at 1984–85 prices
DA	106.1	79.9	106.4	73.27	92.4	74.3	44.6	29.8
IA	1.1	1.0	4.0	2.2	2.9	1.7	2.3	0.8

Notes:

1. The table comprises expenditure on Regional Development Grants, Regional Selective Assistance and Regional Enterprise Grants.

2. The Northern Region is defined as the area covered by the North East and Cumbria.