HC Deb 25 January 1995 vol 253 c224W
Mr. Denham

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list those of his Department's responsibilities on which the integrated regional offices are required to advise him on the allocation of resources and, for each integrated regional office, the annual expenditure on each programme.

Mr. Heseltine

Regional directors advise on a range of programmes but do not hold programme budgets and are not therefore responsible for allocating resources to programmes. The 1993–94 expenditure proposed on each programme was detailed in the DTI's published MINIS 1994, available in the Library of the House.

Mr. Denham

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list those of his Department's responsibilities which are administered by the integrated regional offices and, for each integrated regional office, the estimated annual expenditure on each of these responsibilities.

Mr. Heseltine

The range of activities undertaken by DTI in the regions has not changed with the introduction of the Government offices. The activities and the running costs associated with them for 1993–94 were published in MINIS 1994, available in the Library of the House.

Mr. Denham

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list those of his Department's responsibilities on which integrated regional offices are responsible for preparing, advising on or implementing regional policy.

Mr. Heseltine

The Government offices in the regions assist my Department in work on a range of regional policy issues including regional selective assistance applications, the preparation of single programming documents for the structural funds and administering the regional innovation grants.