asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report (a)the amount of industrial floor space owned or managed by English Estates on a region-by-region basis, indicating which region/regions enjoys special development area status and (b) the amount of industrial floor space currently unlet within the ownership of English Estates on a region-by-region basis.

I have been asked to reply.The table gives the position at the end of March 1985. A revised table showing the position at the end of September is being prepared and I will arrange for a copy to be placed in the Library.

Industrial floorspace owned or managed by English Estates at 31 March 1985 (by Standard Region)
Region	Total stock units	Sq. metres	Total vacant units	Sq. metres
NE	1,542	1,166,763	419	214,329
NW	1,070	556,527	331	146,224
Y & H	626	164,408	231	42,926
EM	204	48,080	38	8,939
WM	176	38,416	33	6,464
SW	528	121,248	155	36,029
SE	146	21,390	30	3,395

Under current assisted area designations, introduced in November 1984, all regions now contain both development and intermediate areas as well as non-assisted areas, except that the south-east is entirely non-assisted and the west midlands contains only intermediate and non-assisted areas.