The WDA (I think they're gone now) have a spectacular record for giving foreign companies huge wads of cash 'for bringing the jobs in'; and not quite being able to notice that the factories shut down when the grants end.
The (usually Jap) company then buggers off to Malaysia or some such place.
Quite how they even thought that giving the dosh to DARA was going to pay off, I'll never know.
CG