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Business Link: Birmingham

Richard Burden: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many businesses in Birmingham had received a free health check from Business Link on the latest date for which figures are available. [325167]

Ms Rosie Winterton: 2,848 businesses in Birmingham have received a health check from Business Link West Midlands since the scheme was introduced in October 2008. Of these, 2,058 were firms which employ nine staff or less; a further 579 were businesses with between 10 and 49 staff.

Business: Government Assistance

Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many guarantees for each type of asset have been provided under his Department's Working Capital Scheme in each constituency. [324488]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Under the Working Capital Scheme the Department has provided to two banks £2.2 billion of guarantees on portfolios of commercial loans to free up regulatory capital for new bank lending to UK companies. The scheme does not provide guarantees on assets, and the loan portfolios do not identify parliamentary constituencies.

Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding has been provided under his Department's Capital for Enterprise Fund in each constituency. [324489]

Ms Rosie Winterton: To date the appointed fund managers of the Capital for Enterprise Fund have made offers totalling £96.7 million to 65 businesses. 26 investments have been made totalling £36.5 million. I am not providing a breakdown by parliamentary constituency as this could make it possible to identify the individual companies that have received support.

Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what guarantees have been provided under his Department's Trade Credit Insurance Scheme in each constituency. [324490]

Ms Rosie Winterton: At scheme closure on 31 December 2009, 109 policies had been written under the scheme to a value of £18,583,865. This is broken down by constituency as follows:

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Constituency	Number of policies	Value of policies (£)
Altrincham and Sale West	1	50,000
Amber Valley	1	15,000
Beaconsfield	1	10,000
Belfast South	1	84,865
Birkenhead	2	600,000
Birmingham, Ladywood	3	302,000
Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath	2	482,000
Bolton South East	1	750,000
Bradford North	1	90,000
Bristol West	3	83,000
Broxbourne	4	90,000
Burnley	1	20,000
Cannock Chase	1	40,000
Chipping Barnet	1	150,000
Cities of London and Westminster	2	470,000
Cleethorpes	2	100,000
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill	1	20,000
East Hampshire	1	100,000
East Londonderry	2	240,000
Eccles	1	100,000
Elmet	1	20,000
Exeter	1	60,000
Faversham and Mid Kent	1	35,000
Folkestone and Hythe	1	50,000
Harlow	1	60,000
Heywood and Middleton	2	125,000
Holborn and St. Pancras	2	2,875,000
Huntingdon	1	40,000
Islwyn	2	44,000
Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle	1	75,000
Luton South	1	100,000
Manchester, Blackley	2	175,000
Mid Ulster	1	15,000
Middlesbrough	1	900,000
Mole Valley	1	100,000
Neath	1	100,000
Normanton	4	446,000
North Devon	1	200,000
North East Milton Keynes	2	201,000
North Warwickshire	1	200,000
Northampton South	3	2,000,000
Nuneaton	1	50,000
Ochil and South Perthshire	1	100,000
Reading West	3	3,000,000
Redcar	1	50,000
Richmond Park	4	402,000
Saffron Walden	1	30,000
Scunthorpe	2	200,000
Sheffield, Attercliffe	2	605,000
Sherwood	1	25,000
Shipley	1	176,000
South Derbyshire	1	300,000
Stirling	1	25,000
Stourbridge	1	15,000
Sutton and Cheam	3	203,000
Telford	2	55,000
Tyne Bridge	1	10,500
Vale of York	4	120,000
Walsall South	3	79,500
Wansdyke	1	150,000
Welwyn Hatfield	1	70,000
West Bromwich West	2	87,500
Woking	2	675,000
Wokingham	3	162,500
Wolverhampton North East	1	50,000
Wolverhampton South West	2	275,000
Wyre Forest	1	50,000
	109	18,586,865

Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many applications for funding under the Small Firms Guarantee scheme have been received by small firms based in (a) Reading East constituency, (b) Berkshire and (c) the South East in each of the last five years. [324575]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Under the Small Firms Loan Guarantee the number of loans made to small firms based in the Reading, East constituency, the county of Berkshire, and the south-east region in each year from 2006 are as follows:

	2006	2007	2008	2009	Total
Reading, East	7	7	6	1	21
Berkshire	67	40	42	9	158
South East	410	377	304	50	1141

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