A total 64 new foreign direct investment projects have been approved since June 2013, Investment Minister Chris Cardona said in Parliament today.

They were in ICT, aviation, manufacture, pharmaceutics and bio-medical, environment and waste management.

Twenty have started operating from 14 private sites, while six have been allocated factory spaces in Malta Industrial Parks industrial estates.

Answering a parliamentary question by Claudio Grech (PN), Dr Cardona said Malta Enterprise and MIP were working to allocate adequate space to the projects that were still pending or to arrange spaces to their requirements.

The minister added that between 2011 and 2012, the last two years before the change in government, 11 projects had been approved, six of which six had started operating employing a total of 14 people.

Answering another question by Mr Grech, Dr Cardona said that there had been 18 cases of eviction from MIP sites since July 2013.

Most were because of occupation without a title, others because sites had remained unoccupied. One particular eviction was because industrial land had been turned to agricultural use without a title.

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