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Mr. Clay
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what has been the total amount of support from his Department to aerospace companies for launch aid since 1979, project by project and year by year.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke
Since 1979 lauch aid has been provided by the Department of Trade and Industry to aerospace companies as follows:
| £ million | |||||||||||
| Project | 1979–80 | 1980–81 | 1981–82 | 1982–83 | 1983–84 | 1984–85 | 1985–86 | 1986–87 | 1987–88 | 11988–89 | Total |
| British Aerospace | |||||||||||
| A320 | — | — | — | — | — | 46·5 | 73·0 | 86·0 | 44·5 | 2-0· | 3249·3 |
| Rolls-Royce | |||||||||||
| RB211–22B | 3·4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3·4 |
| RB211–524B | — | — | 0·3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0·3 |
| RB211–524 | 29·5 | 34·7 | 32·3 | 15·0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 111·5 |
| Growth programme | |||||||||||
| RB211–535 | 45·9 | 32·4 | 60·3 | 38·6 | 14·6 | — | — | — | — | — | 191·8 |
| RB211–535E4 | — | — | — | — | 60·0 | 10·0 | — | — | — | — | 70·0 |
| V2500 | — | — | — | — | — | 10·0 | 22·7 | 27·3 | — | — | 60·0 |
| Total Rolls—Royce | 78·8 | 67·1 | 92·9 | 53·6 | 74·6 | 20·0 | 22·7 | 27·3 | — | — | 437·0 |
| Westland | |||||||||||
| W30 | — | — | — | 10·0 | 10·7 | 14·0 | 4·6 | — | — | — | 39·3 |
| EH101 | — | — | — | — | — | 3·7 | 3·9 | 5·7 | 8·1 | 0·3 | 421·7 |
| Total Westland | — | — | — | 10·0 | 10·7 | 17·7 | 8·5 | 5·7 | 8·1 | 0·3 | 61·0 |
| Total payments | 78·8 | 67·1 | 92·9 | 63·6 | 85·3 | 84·2 | 104·2 | 119·0 | 52·6 | -0·4 | 747·3 |
| Receipts5 | 5·2 | 9·6 | 8·6 | 12·9 | 8·0 | 10·2 | 14·6 | 18·8 | 25·2 | 60·1 | 113·2 |
| Net Total | 73·6 | 57·5 | 84·3 | 50·7 | 77·3 | 74·0 | 89·6 | 100·2 | 27·4 | -0·5 | 634·1 |
| 1To date. | |||||||||||
| 2 Relates to the repayment by British Aerospace to DTI of an overpayment of aid. | |||||||||||
| 3Up to £450 million is also expected to be made available to British Aerospace between 1988 and 1992 in connection with its participation in the Airbus A330/A340 programme. | |||||||||||
| 4Total launch aid for this project will be £60 million. | |||||||||||
| 5Levies received so far relate only to Rolls-Royce, including contracts where launch aid was paid prior to 1979–80. | |||||||||||
| 6 Yet to be notified. | |||||||||||