European Communities 20 Kensinaton Palace Gardens Commission London W8 4Q.,Q., Press Re Ieo se Telephone: 01-7 27 8090 • ISEC/45/78 December 14, 1978 EMBARGO.: 14.00 hrs
£56 m GRANTS TO UK UNDER REGIONAL FUND
Attached is a list of the projects in respect of which grants have been approved in the current allocation under the 1978 budget of the Regional Fund. This latest tranche, of £56m (83m EUA) , wi.ll be paid to the United Kingdom Government in step with national expenditure on the projects concerned. This brings Regional Fund grants to the UK tl1is year to £100 million (151 million EUA) and the total since the Fund began in 1975 to £250 million (386 million EUA). As far as industrial projects are concerned, the Community grants now announced represent a Fund contribution of up to half the cost of the assistance given to individual projects by the United Kingdom Government. European Regional Development Fund grants are not paid to the companies concerned in addition to the assistance they receive from the Government because it is not the purpose of the Fund to enable the individual investor systemetically to get an additional grant from the Community over and above what he would have received from the Government in any case. If that were to be done generally, it would simply mean that the same number of investments was undertaken but selected individual companies each got more. The main objective of the Fund is rather to enable a larger volume of regional industrial development, and associated investment in infrastructure, to take place than would have been possible if the Government had had to rely on national resources alone. The Community grants towards infrastructure projects are passed on in full to the local and other public authorities concerned, thus reducing the amount they have to borrow to finance the investment in question.
This allocation of grants brings total ERFD g~ants this year throughout the EEC to 562m EUA. NORTHERN ENGLAND NORTHERN ENGLAND Ccontd)
B. Infrastructure projects
A. Industry projects Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland- Imperial Chemical £495 013.85 County: Cleveland Industries Ltd (fertilisers> - Langbaurgh, South Teesside (railway improvements> - Langbaurgh, South Bank, Nelson Street Industrial Estate (roads, sewers and services) County: Cleveland - Ha•tlepool, Graythorp Bridge (r~building of bridge) - Hartl~pool - Magnachem Ltd Cdemulsifiers, corrosion and scale inhibitors) - Middlesbrough, Port of Tees (radar equipment, tower and operations room) County: Durham - Midolesbrough, Riverside Park Industrial Estate - Crook, Bishop Auckland - Swiss Aluminium Mining (UK) Ltd (reads, sewers and public utilities> (mining and processing of fluorspar> - Middlesbrough, James Street Industrial Site - Darlington - Union Carbide UK Ltd (rear access to industrial site> (Tantalum and ceramic capacitors> - Middlesbrough, Letitia Street Industrial Site ('oads and sewers) N - Peterlee - D.J.B. Engineering Ltd
- Barrow-in-Furness
(i) Gateshead, Dunston Road (diversion of road to provide access for industry> IQI~~=~!~ Call projects) Cii> Wallsend, Willington Quay
- Sunderland, Washington New Town, Armstrong West Industrial Estate £6 662 940 £1 295 000 Total aid B. Infrastructure projects Lancashire, Burnley and Pendle £771 000 -Liverpool (Calder Valley road route> Ci> Bankhall St Cii) Boundary St Replacement of six cast iron Ciii) Lightbody St bridges. Five of these provide Civ) Chisenhale St access to the docks, the sixth (v) Athol St to Southport Industrial Estate County: Cheshire Sefton - Halton, Widnes, Wellington Street Industrial Estate (roads and sewers) (vi> Fine Jane's bridge County: Lancashire - Liverpool, Garston By-Pass - Skelmersdale, Stanley Industrial Area £1 531 800 Total aid Call infrastructure projects) EAST MIDLANDS YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE !Q!~b=~~g Call projects> A. Industry project A. Industry project ~i.!:!..J.s_gj_v_!n_u,!2d.!,r_a_g_lo~aJ..!P.P.lJ.c.!t.iO!!..!.O_t.!!.e_f.!?_lJ.o.!ii.!29 _£r.!?_J.!C.!: County: Humberside County: Derbyshire - Grimsby - United Biscuits (UK) Ltd - Alfreton- TAC Construction Materials Ltd (crisps> County: West Yorkshire £125 300 - Halifax - Samuel Webster & Sons Ltd Clager) B. Infrastructure projects County: Lincolnshire -East Lindsey, Louth, Fairfield Industrial Estate (provision of sewerage and roadworks> -East Lindsey, Horncastle, Boston Road Industrial Site (services) - East Lindsey, Mablethorpe, Golf Road Industrial Site (preparation of extension to industrial site; provision of roads, sewers, main services of gas, electricity and water) -East Lindsey, Skegness, Heath Road Industrial Site {preparation of industrial site; provision of roads, sewers and services) £ 80 100 SCOTLAND SOUTH WEST ENGLAND A. Industry projects - GrangE!mouth, Falkirk, Central Region- Imperial Chemical £619 640 Industries Ltd (Organics Division) (expanion of procion reactive dyestuffs plant) I2~~b:~lR Call projects) - Bellshill, Airdrie, Strathclyde Region- Devro Ltd £1 128 008.5 (expansion of factory producing collagen sausage casings) A. Ind~stry project ~i!!_ j_s_gj_v~n_u_!2d~r_a_glo.E_al.!P.E.l.ic.!t.io!l.lO_t.!!_e !oll~wj_n~.e.r~j~c,l: - ~errier, Redruth- Scandic Design Stoneware Ltd Central Region: Grampian Region: - Skene, Aberdeenshire- Stewart Milne (Construction> Ltd Ctimb~r frame houses> Lothian Region: - Edinburgh - Brown Bros & Co Ltd Strathclyde Region: - East Kilbride, Lanark - Gray Tool Company (Europe) Ltd Coil and gas wellhead completion equipment and industrial products) - East Kilbride, Lanark- Motorola Ltd Tayside Region: - Dundee - Galloway (Mechanical Services> Ltd £1 925 877.25 Dumfries and Galloway Region: - Stewartry, Castle Douglas B. Infrastructure projects Shetland Islands: - Lerwick 00 - Pitlochry (tourist complex compr1s1ng theatre, restaurant, tourist information centre, car park and toilet facilities> - Pitlochry A. Industry projects £5 891 850 County: Clwyd IQI~b:~!g Call infrastructure projects> £11 874 959 - Ruthin - Lifeguard Equipment Ltd County: Mid Glamorgan - Abercynon- AB Electronic Components Ltd (type 1218 connector) - Rhymney Valley -Gwent Packaging Ltd (chipboard and melamine finished construction projects> County: South Glamorgan - Bridgend - CES Manufacturing (Oiv. of CES Ltd) Call plastic parts for cassettes and library cases) - Cardiff - Myson Group Ltd County: West Glamorgan - Resolven - Cam Gears Ltd County: Gwent - Caerphilly ( improvement of A468 Caerphilly by-pass) - Swansea - Llantrisant County: South Glamorgan - Cardiff (improvement to North Docklands link road) -Cardiff County: West Glamorgan - Ammanford (Herbert Street by-pass, Pontardawe) - Blaengwynfi, Port Talbot NORTHERN IRELAND - Omagh - Modern Engineering Ltd (tipper bodies and digger buckets) - Strabane- O'Neills Sports Goods Ltd (sports clothing) - Strabane - Ulster Country Products CTyrone) Ltd (frozen potato chips) A. Industry project County: West Belfast -Belfast - William W. Cleland Ltd (printing and packaging) County: Antrim - Larne - Invercon Ltd £1 274 638.04 (paper tissues and toilet paper) County: Armagh B. Infrastructure projects - Benburb - K. McAnallen County: Fermanagh - Ennis~illen- Ballycassidy Sawmills Ltd County: BEl fast (sawmill ing) -Belfast, Belfast Harbour - Ennis County: Tyrone - Dungannon - r·lervyn Wil son £866 081.70