Julie Cooper – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2015-12-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much Burnley received from the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund in each year from 2010 to 2015.

James Wharton

The European Regional Development Fund during 2010 – 2015 has provided over £5 million in funding for Burnley.

The breakdown of European Rgional Development Fund projects in Burnley are as follows;

• £3.8 million invested into Burnley Bridge Business Park. The Fund undertook activity to remediate the brownfield site, provide infrastructure and deliver a first phase of commercial development totalling 9,309 sqm.
• £940,000 invested into Weavers Triangle. The funding was allocated to support high quality civic and infrastructure work in a strategic area of Burnley.
• £500,000 invested into Princess Way Gateway for civic improvements linked to the Burnley Education and Enterprise Park.

In addition to the above direct capital investments, small and medium enterprises in Burnley have also benefitted from a number of business support projects operating at county and regional level. Not least the £7.8 million BOOST Lancashire Growth Hub of which the Fund has invested £3.4 million.

The European Social Fund was managed as a national programme by the Department for Work and Pensions over that period.