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Mr. Oppenheim
[holding answer 14 March 1996]: Financial support in the south-west under each of the Department's principal regional, enterprise and technology schemes is shown in the table. Companies may have received support under more than one scheme or have received more than one payment under the same scheme; the absolute number of companies receiving support in any one year could be established only at disproportionate cost.
| Regional Selective Assistance |
| Year |
Number of payments |
Total amount paid £ million |
| 1988 |
77 |
3.054 |
| 1989 |
91 |
4.733 |
| 1990 |
95 |
5.035 |
| 1991 |
107 |
6.324 |
| 1992 |
94 |
4.346 |
| 1993 |
108 |
6.016 |
| 1994 |
118 |
7.058 |
| 1995 |
125 |
7.470 |
| Regional Enterprise Grant |
| Year |
Number of payments |
Total amount paid £ million |
| 1988 |
9 |
0.030 |
| 1989 |
70 |
0.284 |
| 1990 |
134 |
0.713 |
| 1991 |
161 |
0.931 |
| 1992 |
136 |
0.830 |
| 1993 |
124 |
0.700 |
| 1994 |
110 |
0.817 |
| 1995 |
105 |
0.834 |
| Regional Development Grant Scheme II |
| Year |
Number of payments |
Total amount paid £ million |
| 1988 |
683 |
6.929 |
| 1989 |
247 |
2.906 |
| 1990 |
81 |
2.391 |
| 1991 |
25 |
0.363 |
| 1992 |
2 |
0.003 |
| 1993 |
0 |
0.000 |
| 1994 |
1 |
0.209 |
| 1995 |
0 |
0.000 |
| (Regional development grant scheme I closed in 1988, although relatively small volumes of payments continued after that date). |
| Small firms Merit Award for Research and Technology |
| Year |
Number of businesses |
Total amount paid £ million |
| 1988 |
0 |
0 |
| 1989 |
2 |
0.075 |
| 1990 |
15 |
0.575 |
| 1991 |
30 |
1.228 |
| 1992 |
28 |
1.205 |
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| Small firms Merit Award for Research and Technology |
| Year |
Number of businesses |
Total amount paid £ million |
| 1993 |
30 |
1.466 |
| 1994 |
33 |
1.487 |
| 1995 |
47 |
1.790 |
| Support for Products under Research |
| Year |
Number of businesses |
Total amount paid £ million |
| 1988 |
0 |
0 |
| 1989 |
0 |
0 |
| 1990 |
0 |
0 |
| 1991 |
0 |
0 |
| 1992 |
1 |
0.040 |
| 1993 |
4 |
0.163 |
| 1994 |
9 |
0.501 |
| 1995 |
18 |
1.225 |
| Loan Guarantee Scheme |
| Financial year |
Number of loan guarantees issued |
Total value of guarantees £ million |
| 1988–89 |
213 |
5.62 |
| 1989–90 |
350 |
9.46 |
| 1990–91 |
389 |
8.92 |
| 1991–92 |
472 |
10.16 |
| 1992–93 |
373 |
6.90 |
| 1993–94 |
617 |
21.91 |
| 1994–95 |
959 |
33.66 |
| 1995–96 (to date) |
5681 |
19.43 |
| Consultancy Assistance (closed to new applications from September 1994) |
| Year |
Number of completed projects |
Total amount paid £ million |
| 1988–89 |
15 |
0.778 |
| 1989–90 |
1,181 |
2.777 |
| 1990–91 |
1,028 |
3.420 |
| 1991–92 |
1,183 |
4.476 |
| 1992–93 |
903 |
3.670 |
| 1993–94 |
840 |
2.956 |
| 1994–95 |
361 |
0.931 |
| 1995–96 |
n/a |
n.a |
| 1 n/a = not available. |
| 2 For RSA, REG, RDG and the enterprise initiative consultancy scheme the figures shown are of the number of payments made in any year. The same company may have received more than one payment in any year. |
| 3 For LGS, the figures shown are of the number of loans guaranteed. A company may have had more than one loan guaranteed. |
| 4 For EICS, the figures shown are of number of completed projects. Projects may have involved more than one payment. The total amount figures include the cost of initial business reviews which were free to companies. EICS payments were to the contractor consultants employed by DTI and not direct to companies who met the balance of the cost. |