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Mr. Allen McKay
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he expects to negotiate a new multi-fibre arrangement no worse than the present arrangement in order to help the British textile industry.
Mr. Channon
I made clear the Government's position on the MFA during the debate in the House on 9 May. Discussions in the European Community on a negotiating position for both the multilateral and bilateral negotiations
| Section 7 Assistance—Number and Value of Applications | ||||||||||||||
| £ million | ||||||||||||||
| Financial Years | 1979–80 | 1980–81 | 1981–82 | 1982·83 | 1983·84 | 1984·85 | Total | |||||||
| Region | No. | Value | No. | Value | No. | Value | No. | Value | No. | Value | No. | Value | No. | Value |
| Scotland | 323 | 102·6 | 104 | 32·4 | 199 | 66·0 | 291 | 69·4 | 289 | 111·3 | 281 | 172·3 | 1,487 | 554·0 |
| Wales | 214 | 35·4 | 129 | 35·2 | 234 | 31·9 | 311 | 37·9 | 383 | 84·2 | 310 | 69·8 | 1,581 | 294·3 |
| Northern | 176 | 34·3 | 65 | 25·2 | 86 | 21·9 | 204 | 30·8 | 252 | 70·6 | 167 | 29·8 | 950 | 212·6 |
| North West | 422 | 65·7 | 181 | 26·9 | 195 | 29·4 | 294 | 37·1 | 212 | 30·6 | 203 | 24·4 | 1,507 | 214·1 |
| Yorkshire/Humberside | 183 | 20·3 | 61 | 6·6 | 271 | 31·7 | 185 | 23·2 | 208 | 18·6 | 188 | 39·8 | 1,096 | 140·2 |
| East Midlands | 34 | 6·2 | 29 | 3·2 | 121 | 22·1 | 107 | 11·7 | 91 | 12·6 | 54 | 6·6 | 436 | 62·4 |
| West Midlands | 3 | 0·1 | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | 40 | 11·0 | 43 | 11·1 |
| South West | 51 | 4·4 | 14 | 5·1 | 39 | 3·3 | 43 | 1·8 | 59 | 11·4 | 57 | 13·1 | 263 | 39·1 |
| RDG—Number of Applications and Related Capital Expenditure | ||||||||||||||
| £ million | ||||||||||||||
| Financial Years | 1979–80 | 1980–81 | 1981–82 | 1982–83 | 1983–84 | 1984–85 | Total | |||||||
| No. | Value | No. | Value | No. | Value | No. | Value | No. | Value | No. | Value | No. | Value | |
| Great Britain | 39,984 | 2,400 | 39,858 | 3,900 | 27,735 | 2,600 | 24,246 | 2,500 | 25,147 | 2,200 | 28,189 | 2,500 | 185,159 | 16,100 |