European Regional Development Fund (Hansard, 13 March 1995)

§ Mr. Curry

The amount of European regional development fund grant available under each objective 1, 2 and 5b area in England for the current programming period is set out in the table. The programme documents for each objective area contain financial details in ecus. The table shows the sterling equivalent, at the current 415W exchange rate, for the European regional development fund.

Objective area	ERDF grant £ million (1994 prices)
Objective 1 (1994–99)
Merseyside	380
Objective 2 (1994–96)
West Midlands	222
Yorkshire and Humberside	187
North East England	185
Greater Manchester/Lancashire/Cheshire	184
East Midlands	47
East London and Lee Valley	44
Plymouth	18
West Cumbria and Furness	15
Thanet	10
Objective 5(b) (1994–99)
South West England	116
Northern Uplands	52
East Anglia	32
Lincolnshire	30
English Marches	19
Midlands Uplands	7

Percentage change in Dorset County Council's Standard Spending Assessment 1990–91 to 1995–96 by major service block
	Service Block	Change in GDP ³deflator
Year	Education Per cent.	PSS¹ Per cent.	Police Per cent.	Fire Per cent.	Highways per cent.	OSB² per cent.	Capital Per cent.	Total Per cent.	Per cent.
1990–91 to 1991–92	17.1	23.0	10,0	14.7	13.4	39.1	12.9	17.7	6.3
1991–92 to 1992–93	8.5	7.3	18.0	7.6	–0.2	36.2	–11.2	8.2	4.0
1992–93 to 1993–94⁴	4.4	3.6	3.9	2.7	5.5	–2.8	0.1	3.4	3.1
1993–94 to 1994–95⁴	3.2	–1.4	4.2	0.9	0.1	–0.5	–8.5	1.1	⁵2.0
1994–95 to 1995–96⁴	1.1	0.2	⁶—	2.2	2.2	5.4	–6.2	0.9	⁵3.3

Notes:

¹ Personal Social Services.

² 'Other Services' Block.

³ The GDP deflator is a measure of domestically generated inflation in the economy.

⁴ Adjusted for changes in function and responsibility.

⁵ Projections published in the Financial Statement and Budget Report in 1994.

⁶ Dorset Police Authority will be responsible for providing police services in the Dorset area from April 1995.