To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much total state aid was (a) authorised and (b) refused by the European Commission for each member state since May 1997. (107109)

The European Commission has issued since 2001 bi-annual reports on state aid in the State Aid Scoreboard, which provides statistical information on authorised state aid in each member state—available at:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state__aid/scoreboard/

Statistical information on state aid authorised before 2001 is given in the Commission’s Surveys on state aid in the European Union—at:

http://ec.europe.eu/comm/competition/state_aid/scoreboard/previous.html