§ Mr. JamiesonTo ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 18 June,Official Report, column 463, if he will state (a) the amount that had already been paid to the eight companies by his Department, (b) the amount remaining unpaid and (c) the amount that has been recovered by (i) date of last payment and (ii) date of the receiver's appointment or the company liquidation. [35261]
§ Mr. Oppenheim[holding answer 1 July 1996]: In all eight cases, the amounts paid and remaining unpaid were the same on the date of last, if any, payment and the date on which receivers or administrators were appointed.
Amount paid £ Amount remaining unpaid £ Orca Aircraft Ltd. 50,000 150,000 Strategic Alloys Ltd. 400,000 100,000 South West Farm Processors Ltd. 100,000 100,000 Crissan Marine Ltd. nil 120,000 Lobbs Clotted Cream Ltd. 170,000 215,000 ROM-Data Corporation Ltd. 750,000 98,500 Redruth Brewery Ltd. 380,000 100,000 Porthcurno Management Co. Ltd. nil 500,000 In the case of Orca Aircraft Ltd., £42,500 has been recovered subsequent to appointment of the receivers.
§ Mr. JamiesonTo ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 18 June,Official Report, columns 461–64, what assessment he has made of the effect on the effectiveness of Mr. Roger Harris, as chairman of his Department's South West industrial development board, of the number of occasions on which he is caused to absent himself from board meetings due to a potential conflict of interest; and if he will make a statement. [35262]
§ Mr. Oppenheim[holding answer 1 July 1996]: Since becoming chairman of the board in February 1991, Mr. Harris has absented himself from discussion of 35 cases because of potential conflicts of interest, but the board has discussed 77 other cases during that period as well as a wide range of other industrial development issues affecting the south-west and Mr. Harris has proved a very effective chairman. When he has had to absent himself, other board members have stood in for him and the board has continued to be able to provide valuable advice.
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