§ Mr. Jon Owen JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the grants paid by(a) the Welsh Office and (b) its NDPBs to supermarket chains in (i) 1992, (ii) 1993 and (iii) 1994. [12520]
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesThe Welsh Office offered Tesco a grant of £2 million in 1989 to encourage it to relocate its administration centre to Cardiff. In 1992, an offer of £3.8 million was made to encourage it to locate a distribution centre at Magor. Details of individual payments within these offers are commercially confidential, but payments on both projects have been made during the period 1992 to 1994. No other supermarket chains have received Welsh Office grant assistance and no supermarket chain has received grant from Welsh Office public bodies.