To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give the total of European regional development fund moneys given to the borough of St. Helens in each of the last five years.

The totals of commitments from the European regional development fund in respect of projects in St. Helens, Merseyside in the last five years have been as follows:

	Industrial	Infrastructure	Total
	£	£	£
1985	55,783	142,500	198,283
1986	144,002	29,500	173,502
1987	45,057	185,400	230,457
1988	12,057	—	12,057
1989	50,958	—	50,958

The absence of commitments to infrastructure projects in 1989 is due to the European Commission's delay in approving the Mersey basin programme which includes St. Helens. With the recent approval of this programme commitments will resume.