Speeches

Miss Anne McIntosh – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Miss Anne McIntosh on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many projects have received funds from the Regional Growth Fund in (a) Thirsk and Malton constituency, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) the North of England in each of the last five years.

Michael Fallon

No Regional Growth Fund (RGF) awards have been made in the constituency of Thirsk and Malton.

The following table shows the number of projects and programmes in the region that have been awarded RGF grants in Rounds 1-4 and the years in which the selected bidders for each round were announced.

RGF Round

Year selected bidders were announced

The North

(North East, North West,

Yorkshire & Humberside)

North Yorkshire

1

2011

27

0

2

2011

90

1

3

2012

50

0

4

2013

30

0

Selected bidders for Round 5 were announced in April 2014 and Round 5 contracting is under way.

Businesses in the North of England can apply to regional and national RGF programmes for support.