To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what has been the spending, and the number of cases helped in the county of Cleveland, through (a) regional selective assistance and (b) regional development grant in 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987, broken down into manufacturing and service industries, and within that category (i) firms employing up to 200 employees and 201 or more and within that category (ii) regional development grant awards made on a capital grants basis, as opposed to grants given per job created.
[holding answer 14 March 1988]: The information requested in respect of the number of projects receiving payments and the value of expenditure under regional selective assistance (RSA) and regional development grant (RDG) in the County of Cleveland in each year is as follows:
| RSA1 | ||
| Manufacture | Service | |
| 1984 | ||
| Small | ||
| Number of projects | 28 | 5 |
| Payments (£ million) | 1·0 | 0·2 |
| Medium/Large | ||
| Number of projects | 8 | 1 |
| Payments (£ million) | 3·2 | 0·7 |
| 1985 | ||
| Small | ||
| Number of projects | 26 | 5 |
| Payments (£ million) | 2·7 | 0·1 |
| Medium/Large | ||
| Number of projects | 9 | 1 |
| Payments (£ million) | 1·8 | 0·9 |
| RDG2 | ||||
| Manufacture | Service | |||
| (a) Capital grant | (b) Job grant | (a) Capital grant | (b) Job grant | |
| 19843 | ||||
| Small | ||||
| Number of projects | — | — | — | — |
| Payments (£ million) | — | — | — | — |
| Medium/large | ||||
| Number of projects | — | — | — | — |
| Payments (£ million) | — | — | — | — |
| 1985 | ||||
| Small | ||||
| Number of projects | — | 36 | 3 | 17 |
| Payments (£ million) | — | 1·4 | Neg | 0·2 |
| Medium/large | ||||
| Number of projects | — | — | — | — |
| Payments (£ million) | — | — | — | — |
| 1986 | ||||
| Small | ||||
| Number of projects | 30 | 243 | 5 | 75 |
| Payments (£ million) | 0·2 | 2·8 | Neg | 0·8 |
| Medium/large | ||||
| Number of projects | 2 | 1 | — | 1 |
| Payments (£ million) | 0·1 | 0·1 | — | Neg |
| 1987 | ||||
| Small | ||||
| Number of projects | 59 | 365 | 5 | 87 |
| Payments (£ million) | 0·7 | 4·5 | Neg | 0·9 |
| Medium/large | ||||
| Number of projects | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| Payments (£ million) | 0·6 | 0·7 | Neg | Neg |
| Note—small firms are those with up to 200 employees; medium/large firms are those with 201 employees or more. Negligible means payments below £50,000. | ||||
| 1 Project and training grants only. | ||||
| 2 Figures are given for the revised RDG scheme only. Records for the original scheme are insufficiently detailed to provide the information requested. | ||||
| 3 No data for 1984 as the revised RDG scheme was only introduced in November that year. | ||||
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will set out in the Official Report estimates of expenditure in 1987–88 in England, Scotland and Wales, respectively, on (a) regional development grants, (b) regional selective assistance and (c) regional and general
Manufacture
| Service
| |
1986
| ||
| Small | ||
| Number of projects | 32 | 4 |
| Payments (£ million) | 1·7 | 0·1 |
| Medium/Large | ||
| Number of projects | 5 | — |
| Payments (£ million) | 1·8 | — |
1987
| ||
| Small | ||
| Number of projects | 21 | 5 |
| Payments (£ million) | 1·2 | Neg |
| Medium/Large | ||
| Number of projects | 13 | 1 |
| Payments (£ million) | 2·6 | Neg |
industrial support in cash and real terms, together with the amounts of planned expenditure for the years 1988–89,1989–90 and 1990–91.
[holding answer 10 March 1988]:The information requested in cash and constant (1986–87) price terms is as follows:
| £ million1 | ||||||||
| 1987–882 | 1988–893 | 1989–903 | 1990–913 | |||||
| Cash | Constant | Cash | Constant | Cash | Constant | Cash | Constant | |
| (a) Regional Development Grant | ||||||||
| England | 132 | 127 | 156 | 143 | 116 | 103 | 66 | 57 |
| Scotland | 67 | 64 | 58 | 53 | 51 | 45 | 32 | 28 |
| Wales | 54 | 51 | 64 | 58 | 42 | 37 | 28 | 24 |
| (b) Regional Selective Assistance4 | ||||||||
| England | 122 | 117 | 161 | 148 | 148 | 131 | 148 | 127 |
| Scotland5 | 53 | 51 | 60 | 55 | 60 | 53 | 80 | 69 |
| Wales | 41 | 39 | 46 | 42 | 52 | 46 | 61 | 53 |
| (c) Regional and General Industrial Support6 | ||||||||
| England7 | 294 | 282 | 463 | 425 | 448 | 397 | 423 | 364 |
| Scotland8 | 257 | 246 | 266 | 244 | 261 | 231 | 261 | 225 |
| Wales9 | 169 | 162 | 194 | 178 | 180 | 160 | 180 | 155 |
| 1 All figures are net of recoveries and other domestic receipts, but gross of receipts from the European regional development fund | ||||||||
| 2 Supply Estimate figures | ||||||||
| 3 Figures underlying the 1988 public expenditure White Paper | ||||||||
| 4 Incorporating industrial and training grants and expenditure under the business improvement services and exchange risk guarantee schemes | ||||||||
| 5 Including (for 1988–89 onwards) expenditure provision for the regional investment grant element of the enterprise initiative package | ||||||||
| 6 Including expenditure on regional development grant and regional selective assistance | ||||||||
| 7 Including (in addition to RDG and RSA) expenditure provision in Great Britain for selective assistance towards individual companies and industries, as well as (for 1988–89 onwards) GB provision for the consultancy services and regional innovation grant elements of the enterprise initiative package. Also incorporating expenditure in England only under the regional investment grant element of the package, and expenditure on task forces and city action teams. | ||||||||
| 8 Including (in addition to RDG and RSA) expenditure under the Industry, Energy, Trade and Employment (excluding tourism) Vote on support for nationalised industries (except transport), general labour market services, support for the Scottish Development Agency and the Highlands and Islands Development Board, and other central and miscellaneous services. | ||||||||
| 9 Including (in addition to RDG and RSA) expenditure under the regional investment grant element of the enterprise initiative package, and support for the Welsh Development Agency and Mid-Wales Development. | ||||||||