Mr. William O'BrienTo ask the President of the Board of Trade (1) if he will list those local authorities in the Yorkshire region which have received RECHAR money over the past two years giving the amount given to each authority;
(2) what is the value of RECHAR money allocated to the regions over the past two years.
§ Mr. SainsburyEleven United Kingdom RECHAR programmes which were approved in February 1992 and for which grant has to be committed by 31 December 1993. The allocations to these programmes, in 1992 prices are as follows:
(millions of ecu) South Yorkshire 34.0 South Wales 31.2 East Midlands 30.6 Tyne and Wear, South East Northumberland 17.2 Mid Yorkshire 16.5 Eastern Scotland 16.0 Durham and Cleveland 12.2 Lancashire 8.3 South Staffordshire 5.0 North Warwickshire 4.0 Western Scotland 4.0 TOTAL 179.0 It is for each RECHAR programme committee to decide on grants for applications, including those from local authorities. Payments made by the end of May 1993 to local authorities in Yorkshire were, in pounds sterling:
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£ South Yorkshire Barnsley MBC 21,000 Doncaster MBC 209,000 Rotherham MBC 423,000 Sheffield MDC 92,000
£ Mid Yorkshire Wakefield MDC 436,000 Kirklees MBC 100,000 TOTAL 1,281,000