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Welsh Development Agency

Volume 163: debated on Thursday 7 December 1989

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To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his assessment of the real terms increase in cash and as a percentage in the Welsh Development Agency budget for 1990–91 as against 1989–90; and if he will make a statement.

The information is shown in the following table:

Gross provisionOn-year increase
1989–901990–91cashper cent.
£m£m£m
Cash130·415019·615
1989–90 prices1130·4142·912·59·6
Note:
1 Derived using latest GDP deflator.
The WDA's gross budget for 1990–91 is 76 per cent. more than the 1987–88 budget, an increase of 46 per cent. in real terms.