Single Regeneration Budget (Hansard, 19 October 1994)

§ 19. Mrs. Jane Kennedy
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the progress with the implementation of the single regeneration budget.

§ 28. Mr. Milburn
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the progress with the implementation of the single regeneration budget.

§ Sir Paul Beresford
The single regeneration budget was implemented on 1 April 1994.

§ Mr. Madden
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many applications have been submitted to the single regeneration budget for funds to support education programmes in schools, with particular reference to the teaching of English to ethnic minority children.

§ Sir Paul Beresford
Of the total of 469 bids for funding from the single regeneration budget received by Government offices for the regions by the deadline of 7 September 1994, approximately 200 relate in whole or in part to support for education programmes and, of those, approximately 50 specifically refer to the teaching of English to ethnic minority children.

§ Mr. Purchase
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the progress made on regional statements for the single regeneration budget.

§ Sir Paul Beresford
The criteria for the single regeneration budget are set out in the "Bidding Guidance" issued on 14 April 1994, copies of which are in the Library of the House. There are no separate regional statements for the budget, although, as the "Bidding Guidance" states at paragraph 17, initiatives supported by the budget may relate to existing local or regional strategies such as community support frameworks prepared in relation to European structural funds, planning policy guidance and local authority development plans and economic development strategies.