§ Mr. VazTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list at current prices the total amount of funds which England received from the European Union structural fund in each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Sainsbury[holding answer 26 April 1994]:There are no comprehensive figures for allocations to England from the structural funds, as the European agricultural 171W guidance and guarantee fund, guidance section, and parts of the European social fund are not allocated regionally. Allocations to England from the European regional development fund have been:
Year £ million, current prices 1979 58 1980 80 1981 74 1982 114 1983 112 1984 197 1985 195 1986 190 1987 230 1988 172 1989 151 1990 208 1991 199 1992 296 1993 310
§ Mr. VazTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list at current prices the total amount of funds available under each of the European structural funds for each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Sainsbury[holding answer 26 April 1994]: The total amounts allocated from each of the structural funds from 1979 to 1993 have been as follows:
Total EC structural funds allocations Million ecu, current prices Year ERDF ESF EAGGF Total structural funds 1979 962 775 460 2,197 1980 1,138 1,015 625 2,778 1981 1,637 996 721 3,354 1982 1,845 1,510 757 4,112 1983 2,127 1,878 866 4,871 1984 2,383 1,854 796 5,033 1985 2,495 2,189 853 5,537 1986 3,328 2,523 854 6,705 1987 3,662 3,524 941 8,127 1988 3,827 2,871 1,180 7,878 1989 4,666 3,478 1,462 9,606 1990 5,227 3,505 1,925 10,657 1991 7,162 4,787 2,640 14,589 1992 8,903 5,881 3,471 18,255 1993 10,437 6,408 3,769 20,614 Note: Greece benefited from 1981 and Spain and Portugal from 1986.
§ Mr. VazTo ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 13 April,Official Report, column 171, if he will list the Community initiatives under which European funds have been made available since 1989.
§ Mr. Sainsbury[holding answer 26 April 1994]: Community structural funds initiatives launched since 1989 have been ENVIREG, INTERREG, PRISMA, RECHAR, REGEN, REGIS, STRIDE, TELEMATIQUE, LEADER, EUROFORM, NOW, HORIZON, RETEX and KONVER.
§ Mr. VazTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what budgets have been allocated for each of the European Community initiatives launched since 1989.
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§ Mr. Sainsbury[holding answer 26 April 1994]: Allocations to each of the Community initiatives launched since 1989 have been:
Community initiatives million ecu, 1994 prices ENVIREG 590 INTERREG 970 PRISMA 120 RECHAR 390 REGEN 390 REGIS 280 STRIDE 480 TELEMATIQUE 240 LEADER 470 EUROFORM 300 NOW 148 HORIZON 220 RETEX 100 KONVER 130