HC Deb 05 March 1993 vol 220 cc347-8W
Mr. Morgan

To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 17 February to the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Mr. Coe),Official Report, column 269, what parishes, districts and counties within Wales fall within the definition of rural Wales for the purposes of grants from structural funds.

Mr. Sainsbury

[holding answer 2 March 1993]: Under the current structural funds regulations, the area covered by the objective 5(b) programme known as Rural Wales includes the whole of the three counties of Dyfed, Gwynedd and Powys with the exception of the Llanelli travel-to-work area; those parts of the Swansea, Aberdare and Blaenau Gwent (formerly Ebbw Vale) and Abergavenny travel-to-work areas in Dyfed, Gwynedd and Powys; and that part of the Conwy and Colwyn travel-to-work area in Gwynedd.

Article 8(1) of Regulation (EEC) 2052/88 requires that objective 1 regions shall be regions at NUTS II level. The

Percentage shares of total imports1 of Gulf co-operation council countries analysed by exporting country 1979–91
Year UK per cent. France per cent. Germany per cent. Italy per cent. USA per cent. Japan per cent. China per cent.
Bahrain
1979 8.7 2.0 2.7 2.1 8.1 6.8 0.6
1980 6.9 1.4 1.5 1.3 7.6 7.5 0.5
1981 6.0 1.1 1.6 1.2 8.9 6.2 0.5
1982 7.2 1.7 3.4 1.6 10.4 7.8 0.5
1983 8.4 2.4 4.9 3.9 7.0 12.7 0.5
1984 7.3 1.4 3.2 6.3 7.4 9.9 0.4
1985 7.3 1.4 3.2 6.3 7.4 9.9 0.4
1986 7.3 1.4 3.2 6.3 7.4 9.9 0.4
1987 7.3 1.4 3.2 6.3 7.4 9.9 0.4
1988 7.3 1.4 3.2 6.3 7.4 9.9 0.4
1989 7.3 1.4 3.2 6.3 7.4 9.9 0.4
1990 6.3 1.5 2.5 4.0 18.5 6.7 0.3
1991 7.3 3.9 4.1 2.7 14.0 4.6 0.3
Saudi Arabia
1979 7.1 4.6 11.0 7.4 19.8 15.8 0.6
1980 6.5 5.4 9.1 7.3 20.0 17.9 0.8
1981 6.2 5.7 9.5 6.7 21.4 18.3 0.7
1982 6.6 5.3 11.0 6.1 21.0 19.1 0.6
1983 6.2 5.3 9.9 7.5 19.7 19.5 0.6
1984 5.8 7.8 8.3 7.2 17.4 19.8 0.6
1985 6.2 5.1 8.4 7.8 17.0 19.0 0.9
1986 7.3 5.6 8.1 7.3 17.5 15.7 1.2
1987 7.8 5.3 7.7 6.8 15.3 17.3 1.6
1988 7.3 5.2 7.2 6.5 16.2 16.0 1.8
1989 10.2 4.3 6.3 5.7 18.2 14.2 1.9
1990 11.3 4.0 7.4 4.6 16.7 15.3 1.8
1991 11.3 4.0 7.8 4.6 20.2 13.7 2.2
Oman
1979 16.8 3.6 6.3 2.2 8.0 15.4 1.2
1980 15.6 1.9 5.6 1.8 5.7 19.7 1.0
1981 14.5 2.4 4.3 1.9 7.8 22.6 0.7
1982 14.4 3.3 8.3 1.7 8.0 20.7 0.7
1983 18.6 2.1 7.3 2.1 7.7 22.0 0.5
1984 16.6 2.9 9.5 2.3 7.6 21.3 0.5
1985 16.4 3.7 7.8 3.0 5.7 20.2 0.3

NUTS II level region of rural Wales comprises the entire counties of Clwyd, Dyfed, Gwynedd and Powys. It is in respect of this region that the Government continue to press the case for objective 1.