asked the Secretary of State for Industry whether he has received and if he will publish the Memorandum

GOVERNMENT APPLICATIONS FOR EEC FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO BSC
Category of assistance and location or activity	Application made before 28th February 1974	Application made after 28th February 1974	Result
	£m.	£m.
1. Reconversion loans—
Expansion at Ravenscraig	14·8	—	Agreed
	£	£
2. Grants for industry studies carried out by BSC—
(i) Use of redundant blast furnace for treatment of urban refuse	9,000	—	Agreed
(ii) Assessment of training courses for redundant steel workers	10,000	—	Agreed
(iii) Training manual preparation	2,000	—	Agreed
3. Readaptation benefits for workers made redundant by curtailment of activity at BSC plants—
(i) Colsterworth	50,000	—	Agreed
(ii) Scunthorpe	700,000	—	Agreed
(iii) Cookley	—	30,750	Agreed
(iv) Shotton	—	21,000	Agreed
(v) Stanton	—	289,500	Agreed
(vi) Harlaxton and Woolsthorpe	—	18,250	Agreed
(vii) Cargo Fleet	—	50,000	Agreed
(viii) Irlam	—	736,000	Agreed
(ix) Workington	—	101,200	Agreed
(x) Whitehead	—	38,100	Under consideration

In addition to these applications by my Department on behalf of the British Steel Corporation, applications for loans from the ECSC and the EIB, and for ECSC research grants, are also made directly by the corporation.