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Mr. Prescott
asked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list the total value of offers of regional assistance made to companies for each region of the United Kingdom in the last month for which statistics are available.
Mr. MacGregor
[pursuant to his reply, 28 July 1982, c. 535]: Selective assistance has been made available to companies under section 7 of the Industry Act in May 1982 as follows:
Offer Value | |
£ million | |
Scotland | 3·8 |
Wales | 6·8 |
North East | 1·0 |
North West | 2·1 |
Yorkshire/Humberside | 1·2 |
South West | 0·1 |
East Midlands | 1·3 |
Total GB | 16·3 |
£ million | |
Scotland | 26·9 |
Wales | 24·2 |
Northern | 16·4 |
Yorkshire/Humberside | 7·3 |
East Midlands | 1·2 |
South West | 2·1 |
North West | 18·1 |
Total GB | 96·2 |
Belfast region—Expenditure in period 1979–80 to 1981–82 | ||||||||
Period | District 1 | District 2 | District 3 | District 4 | District 5 | District 6 | District 7 | |
£ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | ||
New Build | 1979–80 | 2,095,992 | 2,456,410 | 1,153,570 | 722,764 | 1,674,067 | 3,999,924 | 1,236,909 |
(Payments to Contractors) | 1980–81 | 1,588,694 | 3,218,870 | 2,500,647 | 1,854,736 | 3,069,262 | 5,117,101 | 2,630,782 |
1981–82 | 2,392,255 | 6,198,929 | 3,833,453 | 3,042,767 | 3,098,688 | 4,765,402 | 3,481,076 | |
6,076,941 | 11,874,209 | 7,487,670 | 5,620,267 | 7,842,017 | 13,882,427 | 7,348,767 | ||
Rehabilitation/Improvement/Modernisation—Payments (includes purchase of dwellings, professional fees etc. | 1979–80 | 1,024,090 | 908,380 | 685,038 | 1,291,978 | 911,987 | 1,814,097 | 2,591,210 |
1980–81 | 1,300,033 | 1,854,190 | 646,538 | 2,722,134 | 2,200,029 | 2,466,857 | 2,498,941 | |
1981–82 | 1,290,278 | 2,944,169 | 1,213,811 | 3,730,491 | 2,814,195 | 2,593,706 | 2,917,966 | |
3,614,401 | 5,706,739 | 2,545,387 | 7,744,603 | 5,926,211 | 6,874,660 | 8,008,117 | ||
Grants—Payment to applicants(excludes repair and insulation grants | 1979–80 | 572,460 | 685,018 | 834,347 | 367,613 | 289,470 | 340,247 | 1,372,684 |
1980–81 | 631,953 | 1,062,468 | 1,175,598 | 411,426 | 313,373 | 714,464 | 1,712,601 | |
1981–82 | 578,576 | 1,714,055 | 997,378 | 390,668 | 426,349 | 965,049 | 1,858,792 | |
1,782,989 | 3,461,541 | 3,007,323 | 1,169,707 | 1,029,192 | 2,019,760 | 4,944,077 | ||
Response and Planned | 1979–80 | 1,044,816 | 581,360 | 926,373 | 552,558 | 857,790 | 576,467 | 163,476 |
Maintenance | 1980–81 | 884,423 | 474,899 | 1,213,843 | 601,763 | 1,010,767 | 661,445 | 229,315 |
1981–82 | 1,032,303 | 639,194 | 1,527,932 | 722,088 | 1,074,470 | 648,712 | 433,623 | |
2,961,542 | 1,695,453 | 3,668,148 | 1,876,409 | 2,943,027 | 1,886,624 | 826,414 |