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Mr. Page
Table 1 shows, by region, the pump priming grant for each business link area.
A list of business link services expenditure by business link area could only be provided at disproportionate cost since the information on services grant for each business link is not held centrally and the total services grant for each business link would have to be calculated from local, generally paper-based records of expenditure from each of the services budgets. However, data on expenditure by region are held electronically and table 2 shows expenditure on business support services funded by DTI through training and enterprise councils and business links. These data include expenditure of non-business link services in those areas where the business link had not yet opened in 1995–96.
| Table 1: Pump-priming grants for Business Links 1995–96 |
| (£000s) |
| Area |
|
| Heart of England |
211.1 |
| Thames Valley |
663.0 |
| Isle of Wight |
284.3 |
| Milton Keynes |
720.9 |
| Hampshire1 |
0.0 |
| Kent |
901.1 |
| Surrey |
666.0 |
| Sussex |
603.3 |
| South East |
4,049.6 |
| BL London |
2,966.5 |
| North London |
309.5 |
| South London |
206.9 |
| West London |
382.9 |
| Central London |
429.7 |
| London East |
329.0 |
221W
| Table 1: Pump-priming grants for Business Links 1995–96 |
| (£000s) |
| Area |
|
| North West London |
124.4 |
| South West London |
747.2 |
| City/Inner London |
652.3 |
| London |
6,148.5 |
| Bedfordshire |
614.9 |
| Central and S. Cambridgeshire |
357.5 |
| Essex |
538.7 |
| Greater Peterborough |
579.6 |
| Hertfordshire |
819.9 |
| Norfolk |
492.1 |
| Suffolk |
396.6 |
| Eastern |
3,799.3 |
| West (Avon) |
1,363.0 |
| Devon and Cornwall |
1,948.0 |
| Dorset |
287.1 |
| Gloucestershire |
508.0 |
| Wiltshire |
382.3 |
| Somerset |
779.3 |
| South West |
5,267.7 |
| Birmingham |
594.3 |
| Solihull |
397.0 |
| Wyre Forest |
276.8 |
| Redditch |
314.4 |
| Coventry and Warwickshire |
824.0 |
| Dudley |
500.4 |
| Hereford and Worcester |
194.5 |
| Sandwell |
603.4 |
| Shropshire |
185.7 |
| Staffordshire |
305.3 |
| Walsall |
216.5 |
| Wolverhampton |
193.2 |
| West Midlands |
4,605.5 |
| Greater Nottingham |
573.1 |
| Leicestershire |
391.4 |
| Lincolnshire |
289.3 |
| North Derbyshire |
466.1 |
| North Nottinghamshire |
256.6 |
| Northamptonshire |
207.1 |
| Southern Derbyshire |
174.1 |
| East Midlands |
2,357.7 |
| Barnsley |
135.2 |
| Doncaster |
196.6 |
| Bradford |
100.0 |
| Calderdale/Kirklees |
578.9 |
| Humberside |
335.5 |
| Leeds |
605.1 |
| North Yorkshire1 |
0.0 |
| Rotherham |
216.9 |
| Sheffield |
368.2 |
| Wakefield |
289.7 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber |
2,826.1 |
| Bolton/Bury1 |
0.0 |
| Cumbria |
642.1 |
| East Lancashire1 |
0.0 |
| Halton |
146.8 |
| High Peak1 |
0.0 |
| Manchester |
350.4 |
| Mid Cheshire1 |
0.0 |
| OIdham |
257.6 |
| Rochdale |
452.1 |
| South and East Cheshire |
56.1 |
| Stockport |
77.4 |
| Warrington1 |
0.0 |
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| Table 1: Pump-priming grants for Business Links 1995–96 |
| (£000s) |
| Area |
|
| West Lancashire1 |
0.0 |
| Wigan |
86.5 |
| North west |
2,069.0 |
| Wirral and Chester1 |
0.0 |
| Merseyside |
1,143.4 |
| St. Helens |
233.6 |
| Merseyside |
1,377 |
| Durham |
535.1 |
| Northumberland |
382.9 |
| Teesside |
533.8 |
| Tyneside |
336.5 |
| Wearside |
216.6 |
| North east |
2,004.9 |
| BL Support |
5,030.8 |
| National total |
39,536.1 |
| 1 Pump-priming expenditure began after 1995–96. |
| Table 2: Expenditure on business support services funded by DTI through TECs and Business Links 1995–96 |
| Region |
£ million |
| South East |
6.41 |
| London |
5.59 |
| Eastern |
5.02 |
| South West |
4.83 |
| West Midlands |
6.06 |
| East Midlands |
4.32 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber |
2.89 |
| North West |
4.60 |
| Merseyside |
1.37 |
| North East |
2.54 |
| Total |
43.63 |