Question reference: S1W-00888
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 10 August 1999
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Current status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 24 August 1999
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the fisheries schemes which have been administered for each of the last ten financial years, the amounts of funds allocated to each scheme for each financial year, the total number of applications received and the total number of successful applications made for each scheme.
Answer
During the last 10 financial years fisheries aid schemes were administered under EU Regulations 355/77; 4028/86; 4042/89 and 3699/93. In addition, The Scottish Office operated "back-up" grants schemes which provided the requisite Member State contribution to trigger EU grant aid.
We are unable to provide the precise number of applications for the regulations prior to 1993 but since then 876 applications were received of which 597 were successful.
Measures assisted were vessel construction; vessel modernisation; processing and marketing of fishery produce; promotion of fishery products; fishing port facilities and aquaculture.
Assistance was also available for fishery harbour development works and details are provided separately in answer to PQ No S1W - 863.
The table shows the amounts by which the industry benefited under each Regulation in each of the last 10 years. EXPENDITURE UNDER FISHERIES SCHEMES FROM 1989/90 - 1998/99
Regulation | 89-90 | 90-91 | 91-92 | 92-93 | 93-94 |
355/77 | 849,426 | 730,306 | 1,296,606 | 1,720,788 | 266,468 |
4028/86 | 3,374,925 | 4,121,099 | 2,156,423 | 3,616,942 | 945,051 |
4042/89 | - | - | - | 73,200 | 2,193,217 |
3699/93 | - | - | - | - | - |
Back-up | 317,373 | 331,932 | 286,206 | 931,412 | 585,178 |
TOTAL | 4,541,724 | 5,183,337 | 3,739,235 | 6,342,342 | 3,989,914 |
Regulation | 94-95 | 95-96 | 96-97 | 97-98 | 98-99 |
355/77 | 204,102 | 535,707 | 4,756 | - | - |
4028/86 | 1,536,070 | 2,221,528 | 839,569 | 195,290 | - |
4042/89 | 2,680,157 | 2,546,706 | 249,582 | - | - |
3699/93 | - | 1,450,458 | 3,692,247 | 2,247,591 | 2,960,687 |
Back-up | 665,596 | 870,218 | 590,571 | 674,884 | 526,118 |
TOTAL | 5,085,925 | 7,624,617 | 5,376,725 | 3,117,765 Grand Total | 3,486,805 £48,388,389 |