asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will set out the ways in which the £250,000 allocated for communicating the industrial strategy in 1978 was spent.
Of the £250,000 provided in 1978–79 for communicating the industrial strategy, £50,000 has been allocated directly to the TUC as a grant in aid towards certain expenses incurred in organising conferences about the industrial strategy for trade unionists. To date, nearly £21,000 has been disbursed by the TUC.Of the remaining £200,000 the National Economic Development Office had spent £112,000 by 31 January 1979 on the following items:
| £ | |
| Conferences sponsored by NEDO | 10,000 |
| Use of consultants to give presentations to individual companies of work done by the Sector Working Parties | 9,000 |
| Films, video and audio-visual material | 24,000 |
| Publications | 69,000 |
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make available the papers prepared on the industrial strategy for the meeting of the National Economic Development Council on 7 February.
I have arranged for copies of the three main papers taken at the NEDC meeting, amended in order to exclude information which must remain confidential, to be placed in the Library.