HC Deb 25 May 1993 vol 225 cc545-6W
Mr. Richards

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the firms in Clywd that accepted regional enterprise grants in each year in which they were available and the amount of each grant; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. David Hunt

Details about individual companies accepting offers of regional enterprise grants are commercially confidential. However, the following table gives the total number and value of offers accepted by companies in Clwyd for each year since the start of the scheme on 1 April 1988.

Type of grant
Investment Innovation
Number Offer value (£) Number Offer value (£)
1988–89 41 322,534 10 227,750
1989–90 105 894,996 15 322,384
1990–91 67 616,778 23 498,074
1991–92 47 476,112 16 347,632
1992–93 27 253,839 20 450,092
Total 287 2,564,259 84 1,845,932

Mr. Richards

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the firms in Clwyd that accepted offers of regional selective assistance in 1991–92 and 1992–93 and the amount of each offer; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. David Hunt

Details of all offers of regional selective assistance of £75,000 or more are published in theEmployment Gazette following the first payment of grant. These details remain commercially confidential until that time including individual amounts of RSA associated with projects which have been publicly announced beforehand. Companies accepting offers of RSA in 1991–92 whose details have appeared in the Employment Gazette are:

RSA Offer (£)
Processed Timber Products Ltd. 75,000
Keating Gravure Systems (UK) Ltd. 100,000
Kronospan Ltd. 3,000,000
P. and R. Graphics 100,000
Fibrax Ltd. 125,000
Betts and Co. 600,000