Gareth Thomas – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gareth Thomas on 2016-10-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding the UK received from the European Regional Development Agency in (a) total, (b) each action region of the UK and (c) each local authority area in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
Margot James
The UK was allocated €7.8 billion from the European Regional Development Fund for the period 2007-16. This was broken down between the different parts of the UK for each year as follows:
|
€m |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
|
England |
545.3 |
515.9 |
485.2 |
453.0 |
414.6 |
427.7 |
436.3 |
Nil |
985.8 |
507.8 |
|
Wales |
177.9 |
181.5 |
185.1 |
188.8 |
192.6 |
196.5 |
200.4 |
189.2 |
193.0 |
196.9 |
|
Scotland |
80.5 |
77.6 |
74.6 |
71.5 |
68.1 |
64.6 |
61.0 |
64.1 |
65.4 |
66.7 |
|
Northern Ireland |
41.3 |
42.1 |
42.9 |
43.8 |
44.7 |
45.6 |
22.5 |
41.4 |
42.2 |
43.1 |
Within England, the European Regional Development Fund for 2007-2013 was administered on the basis of NUTS 1 regions (as defined by the European Statistical Office). The breakdown for each year was as follows:
|
€m |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
|
North West |
156.8 |
138.5 |
119.5 |
99.6 |
78.9 |
80.4 |
82.0 |
|
Yorkshire & Humber |
127.1 |
110.8 |
93.7 |
76.0 |
57.5 |
58.7 |
59.8 |
|
North East |
50.5 |
51.5 |
52.6 |
53.6 |
54.7 |
55.8 |
56.9 |
|
East Midlands |
36.1 |
36.8 |
37.6 |
38.3 |
36.5 |
39.9 |
40.7 |
|
West Midlands |
53.8 |
54.9 |
56.0 |
57.1 |
58.2 |
59.4 |
60.6 |
|
East of England |
14.9 |
15.2 |
15.5 |
15.8 |
16.2 |
16.5 |
16.8 |
|
London |
24.5 |
25.0 |
25.5 |
26.0 |
26.5 |
27.0 |
27.6 |
|
South East |
3.2 |
3.3 |
3.3 |
3.4 |
1.4 |
3.5 |
3.6 |
|
South West |
16.8 |
17.1 |
17.4 |
17.8 |
18.2 |
18.5 |
18.9 |
|
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly |
61.6 |
62.8 |
64.1 |
65.4 |
66.7 |
68.0 |
69.4 |
For the 2014-2020 period, England’s share of the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund was allocated across Local Enterprise Partnership areas (see list of allocations at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/307492/bis-14-772-uk-allocations-eu-structural-funds-2014-2020-letter.pdf). Local partners decided how the total in each area should be split between the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund.
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