To ask the President of the Board of Trade (1) if he will list those local authorities in the Yorkshire region which have received RECHAR money over the past two years giving the amount given to each authority;(2) what is the value of RECHAR money allocated to the regions over the past two years.

Eleven United Kingdom RECHAR programmes which were approved in February 1992 and for which grant has to be committed by 31 December 1993. The allocations to these programmes, in 1992 prices are as follows:

	(millions of ecu)
South Yorkshire	34·0
South Wales	31·2
East Midlands	30·6
Tyne and Wear, South East Northumberland	17·2
Mid Yorkshire	16·5
Eastern Scotland	16·0
Durham and Cleveland	12·2
Lancashire	8·3
South Staffordshire	5·0
North Warwickshire	4·0
Western Scotland	4·0
TOTAL	179·0

It is for each RECHAR programme committee to decide on grants for applications, including those from local authorities. Payments made by the end of May 1993 to local authorities in Yorkshire were, in pounds sterling:

	£
South Yorkshire
Barnsley MBC	21,000
Doncaster MBC	209,000
Rotherham MBC	423,000
Sheffield MDC	92,000