§ Mr. JenkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what bids into the Single Regeneration Budget from local authorities and other organisations within the West Midlands Region
Annex 1: Government office for the West Midlands SRB Challenge Fund: final and approved bids, rounds 1–3 Final bids Approved bids Local authority led bids Non-Local Authority led bids Total Local Authority accountable body Non-Local Authority accountable body Total Round 1 8 29 37 7 6 13 Round 2 10 12 32 12 9 121 Round 3 17 12 29 8 1 9 1 Twenty one bids were approved in Round 2 of which 19 have contracts in 1997–98. There is no direct correlation between local authority led final bids and approved bids with local authority accountable bodies. Many bids are submitted by a Regeneration Partnership which agrees an accountable body from within its membership on receiving approval.
300W
Annex 2: Job creation outputs forecast over scheme lifetime and achieved at latest return date, in approved and contracted SRB Challenge Fund schemes Title Accountable body Lifetime forecast Achievement to 31 March 1997 Outputs over 2 years Round 1 Regeneration Wolverhampton Wolverhampton MBC 2,465 703 Foundation for the Future Dudley MBC 901 146 Sandwell Regeneration Partnership Programme Sandwell MBC 952 332 Creating a sustainable Black Country Urban Forest National Urban Forestry Unit 6 4 Department of Health's Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP). This Committee was established by the Chief Medical Officer in 1992 to assess and advise Government on the effects upon health of air pollutants.
The details of the new system are presented in the following table, including the pollutant concentrations for the four bands.
have been (a) submitted and (b) approved in each year since the SRB was established; and if he will indicate in each approved case the number of jobs created. [16896]
§ Angela EagleOver Rounds 1 to 3 of the SRB Challenge Fund the West Midlands has received 98 final bids of which 43 were approved and 41 have a funding agreement with the Secretary of State in the financial year 1997–98. Thirty-five of these bids were local authority led and 27 of the approved bids had local authority accountable bodies. A round-by-round breakdown is at annexe 1.
Thirty-eight of the approved and contracted bids forecast job creation outputs totalling 48,527. To 31 March 1997 the Rounds 1 and 2 schemes had already created 8,334 jobs. Round 3 schemes will make their first return in November 1998. Scheme-by-scheme details of jobs created are at annexe 2.
301W
Annex 2: Job creation outputs forecast over scheme lifetime and achieved at latest return date, in approved and contracted SRB Challenge Fund schemes Title Accountable body Lifetime forecast Achievement to 31 March 1997 Outputs over 2 years Connected Community for the 21st century KC3 41 19 Cannock Gateway Project Cannock Chase DC 2,134 353 Supporting start-ups and existing small businesses in Shropshire Shropshire TEC 700 545 Support for new and young businesses in Staffordshire Staffordshire TEC 4,560 862 Employment creation in the HAWTEC area HAWTEC 2,165 990 Cobridge Community Renewal Stoke on Trent CC 2,067 459 Birmingham 1995–2000 Birmingham CC 5,679 2,260 Spreading market confidence north CWP Ltd. 2,301 1,208
Title Accountable body Lifetime forecast Achievement to 31 March 1997 Outputs over 1 year Round 2 Birmingham 1996–2003 Birmingham CC 1,620 32 Burton: A better future East Staffordshire BC 5,901 232 Trent Challenge Cannock Chase DC 2,386 6 Meeting the Challenge of Change—North Warwickshire CWP Ltd. 439 24 Wren's Nest comprehensive Area Regeneration Dudley MBC 50 34 Aston SRB: Breaking the cycle Focus Housing Association 75 2 Empowering Local Communities Walsall MBC 759 0 Improving Labour Market Flexibility in the HAWTEC area HAWTEC 180 20 Leek Regeneration Staffordshire Moorlands DC 196 12 Cheston Community Programme Newcastle Under Lyme BC 1,031 16 Redditch Community Works Redditch BC 750 7 Capacity Building for Urban Regeneration Sandwell MBC 124 24 North Solihull Change Solihull MBC 130 10 Villages Initiative Stoke on Trent CC 1,090 10 Impact on Employment Stourbridge College 0 1 Empowering Enterprise in Local Communities HAWTEC 120 11 Substance misuse initiative Warwickshire Probation Service 6 5 Engineering in Education EEF West Midlands 8 7
Title Accountable body Lifetime forecast Achievement to 31 March 1997 1st return due November 1997 Round 3 Black Voluntary Sector Regional Regeneration Network SIA 10 n/a Burntwood Chase Community Partnership Lichfield DC 769 n/a Foleshill Regeneration Coventry CC 450 n/a Leominster—Back from the Brink Leominster DC 343 n/a Malvern Hills Science Park Malvern Hills DC 81 n/a Newcastle Western Urban Villages Community Programme Newcastle under Lyme BC 1,811 n/a Regeneration Wolverhampton—Round 3 Wolverhampton MBC 5,700 n/a Young People in Focus—Sandwell Sandwell MBC 527 n/a Sources: Lifetime Forecasts—1997–98 Delivery Plans.
Actuals to 31 March 1997–1995–96 and 1996–97 outputs returns.