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Regional Selective Assistance

Volume 451: debated on Monday 6 November 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much funding has been clawed back from foreign companies that were in receipt of regional selective assistance because they failed to meet the conditions attached to the funding concerning job targets or target investment levels in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area. (89340)

Regional selective assistance is only awarded to companies registered in the United Kingdom.

The total amount of RSA recovered from companies registered in the United Kingdom, who have overseas parent companies is outlined in the following table, for periods 1 April 1999 to 31 March 2006.

This information is broken down by each accounting year and by each local authority area.

Recoveries from foreign companies from 1 April 1999 to 31 March 2006

Total

1999-2000

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

Nottingham

500,000

500,000

Liverpool

100,000

100,000

North Tyneside

18,000,000

18,000,000

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

12,000,000

12,000,000

South Hams

244,687

244,687

Plymouth

156,502

16,000

140,502

Nuneaton and Bedworth

380,000

380,000

Birmingham

1,219,986

700,000

519,986

Glanford

236,535

236,535

Sheffield

16,150

16,150

North Lanarkshire

9,629,000

1,129,000

500,000

8,000,000

South Lanarkshire

1,880,896

88,215

175,000

1,470,000

100,000

47,681

North Ayrshire

667,000

633,000

34,000

South Ayrshire

20,000

20,000

Renfrewshire

968,295

385,320

430,000

73,000

79,975

West Lothian

20,888,121

1,098,039

30,932

16,966,014

2,473,136

320,000

East Dunbartonshire

200,000

200,000

West Dunbartonshire

640,000

640,000

Inverclyde

3,200,000

3,000,000

200,000

Glasgow

300,000

60,000

240,000

Fife

4,877,337

1,283,611

400,000

2,050,000

98,000

770,726

275,000

Angus

80,000

80,000

Dundee

280,000

275,000

5,000

Falkirk

100,000

100,000

Anglesey

771,555

771,555

Blaenau-Gwent

1,590,000

1,045,000

342,000

95,000

108,000

Bridgend

680,000

400,000

280,000

Merthyr Tydfil

226,295

177,545

48,750

Neath-Port Talbot

400,000

400,000

Newport

36,292,638

348,438

144,200

35,800,000

Rhonda Cynon Taff

3,115,000

1,165,000

1,950,000

Wrexham

95,500

95,500

Total

119,755,497

25,972,119

4,856,665

34,996,502

6,330,074

8,902,200

37,263,382

1,434,555