To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the number of jobs created or safeguarded by inward investment in Wales in each year since 1992–93; and if he will make a statement. [34947]

I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave on 18 July to the hon. Member for Caernarfon (Mr. Wigley).

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will give for each of the statistical regions of England the share of all inward investment projects coming to the United Kingdom in each of the last 10 years as measured by (a) numbers of projects and (b) numbers of jobs to be created. [35170]

[holding answer 18 July 1995]: For the financial years 1984–85 to 1994–95 the proportion of inward investment decisions and number of jobs created in each of the regions of England are as follows:

Region	Percentage of projects	Percentage jobs created
1984–85
East Midlands	2.5	2.2
North east	8.3	5.6
North west	13.4	7.7
South east	21.2	23.6
South west	4.2	5.3
West Midlands	6.3	7.9
Yorkshire and Humberside	3.7	1.0
1985–86
East Midlands	5.4	3.7
North east	6.1	7.5
North west	9.2	8.5
South east	22.3	14.4
South west	4.3	7.0
West Midlands	19.7	21.6
Yorkshire and Humberside	3.5	7.7
1986–87
East Midlands	2.8	1.9
North east	10.6	13.1
North west	6.7	6.0
South east	18.5	12.1
South west	3.0	2.2
West Midlands	18.8	27.1
Yorkshire and Humberside	5.6	1.8
1987–88
East	0.5	0.08
East Midlands	3.3	1.4
North east	6.0	10.3
North west	9.0	5.7
South east	16.2	29.7
South west	3.0	2.6
West Midlands	17.6	10.4
Yorkshire and Humberside	7.4	5.7
1988–89
East	0.2	0.06
East Midlands	6.3	5.1
North east	10.6	10.1
North west	11.4	7.5
South east	9.7	9.0
South west	1.7	1.4
West Midlands	21.2	14.1
Yorkshire and Humberside	6.6	6.5
1989–90
East	0.8	0.8
East Midlands	3.4	9.1
North east	10.4	11.1
North west	16.0	8.5
South east	4.0	2.1
South west	1.6	4.1
West Midlands	25.4	20.3
Yorkshire and Humberside	5.0	5.6
1990–91
East	1.6	1.8
East Midlands	3.2	7.0
North east	10.9	9.0
North west	18.4	9.5
South east	4.6	3.3
South west	0.8	2.4
West Midlands	19.5	19.3
Yorkshire and Humberside	7.1	5.2
1991–92
East	3.1	2.6
East Midlands	1.4	1.3
North east	11.0	16.4
North west	21.2	6.6
South east	8.2	5.1

Region	Percentage of projects	Percentage jobs created
South west	2.5	9.7
West Midlands	13.3	8.4
Yorkshire and Humberside	4.8	7.3
1992–93
East	2.4	2.0
East Midlands	2.1	1.0
North east	10.5	12.9
North west	9.0	5.5
South east	6.0	6.8
South west	2.1	1.5
West Midlands	12.9	8.7
Yorkshire and Humberside	13.2	7.2
1993–94
East	3.2	1.5
East Midlands	5.1	10.5
North east	8.8	7.3
North west	7.4	7.6
South east	4.6	2.9
South west	2.7	3.4
West Midlands	19.4	11.0
Yorkshire and Humberside	9.2	7.6
1994–95
East	2.7	2.2
East Midlands	10.1	8.2
North east	8.7	15.0
North west	11.2	5.3
South east	8.5	8.7
South west	4.8	3.7
West Midlands	14.2	13.0
Yorkshire and Humberside	4.8	6.2

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the number of new and safeguarded jobs brought by inward investors into each of the standard regions of the United Kingdom and for the United Kingdom as a whole for each year since 1992–93; and if he will indicate the percentage of the United Kingdom total for each standard region, and the average increase or decrease in proportional terms of this percentage during the last year. [34858]

[holding answer 18 July 1995]: The number of new and safeguarded jobs associated with inward investment decisions in each of the regions of the United Kingdom for each year since 1992–93 are as follows:

Region	New jobs (percentage)	Safeguarded jobs (percentage)
1992–93
East	363 (2.0)	10,632 (24.2)
East Midlands	183 (1.0)	405 (0.9)
North east	2,312 (12.9)	3,210 (7.3)
Northern Ireland	2,742 (15.3)	1,357 (3.0)
North west	992 (5.5)	3,763 (8.5)
Scotland	4,497 (25.2)	4,198 (9.5)
South east	1,212 (6.8)	6,128 (13.9)
South west	285 (1.5)	995 (2.2)
Wales	2,382 (13.3)	4,949 (11.2)
West Midlands	1,568 (8.7)	2,669 (6.0)
Yorkshire and Humberside	1,286 (7.2)	5,529 (12.6)
Total	17,822	43,825

Region	New jobs (Percentage)	Safeguarded jobs (Percentage)
1993–94
East	482 (1.5)	1,231 (1.7)
East Midlands	3,218 (10.5)	210 (0.3)
North east	2,256 (7.3)	3,981 (5.7)
North Ireland	3,030 (9.9)	601 (0.8)
North west	2,322 (7.6)	2,312 (3.3)
Scotland	7,635 (24.9)	4,639 (6.6)
South east	916 (2.9)	5,950 (8.5)
South west	1,065 (3.4)	1,112 (1.5)
Wales	3,913 (12.8)	2,651 (3.8)
West Midlands	3,370 (11.0)	42,069 (61.7)
Yorkshire and Humberside	2,329 (7.6)	3,998 (5.7)
UK total	30,536	69,754

Region	New jobs (Percentage)	Percentage of change	Safeguarded jobs (Percentage)	Percentage of change
1994–95
East	842 (2.2)	+1.7	1,620 (3.1)	+1.4
East Midlands	3,028 (8.2)	-2.3	8,642 (16.9)	+16.6
North east	5,550 (15.0)	+7.7	3,649(7.1)	+1.4
Northern Ireland	3,138 (8.5)	-1.4	2,008 (3.9)	+3.1
North west	1,956 (5.3)	-2.3	5,267 (10.3)	+7.0
Scotland	7,678 (20.8)	-14.1	3,117 (6.0)	-0.6
South east	3,213 (8.7)	-5.8	14,775 (28.8)	+20.3
South west	1,386 (3.7)	+0.3	707 (1.3)	-0.2
Wales	2,989 (8.1)	-4.7	2,014 (3.9)	+0.1
West Midlands	4,797(13.0)	+2.0	7,469 (14.6)	-47.1
Yorkshire and Humberside	2,299 (6.2)	-1.4	1,865 (3.6)	-2.1
UK total	36,876		51,133

The unsually high number of safeguarded jobs for the west midlands in 1993–94 includes those arising from BMW/Rover.The figures are based on the number of projects notified to the Invest in Britain Bureau at the time of the decision to invest. Companies are under no obligation to notify their investment decisions and the figures take not account of subsequent developments.