To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give details of the consultants used by Lanarkshire development agency over the last two years.

[holding answer 5 May 1993]: While expenditure on consultancy studies above certain delegated authorities requires the approval, respectively, of Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Office, the choice and use of consultants is essentially a matter for the local enterprise companies themselves; and the Scottish Office holds no central record of the use of consultants. I suggest, therefore, that the hon. Member should take this matter up direct with Lanarkshire development agency.