§ Mr. MacShaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many(a) successful and (b) unsuccessful attempts have been made by United Kingdom organisations in the last four years to obtain funds from (i) the EU's promotion of training and mobility of researchers, (ii) Youth for Europe, (iii) Leonardo da Vinci, (iv) Socrates, (v) NOW, (vi) Youthstart, (vii) Integra, (viii) Adapt and (ix) Horizon schemes; and what funds have been allocated to the United Kingdom under each of these schemes. [12339]
§ Mr. PaiceThe information is not available in the exact form requested. The tables set out the information that is available for each scheme. However, full information on projects funded in individual member states by the framework programme, including the training and mobility of researchers programme, is held only by the Commission. Thus, information on the numbers of successful and unsuccessful applications and the precise funds allocated to each member state are not available.
The current programme "Youth for Europe III" started in 1995 and the following information is available. Information on the funding of the centralised part of the programme is available from the Commission. The decentralised part of YFE III is administered on a national basis.
Youth for Europe III Year Successful groups Successful participants Unsuccessful groups Total groups 1995 YFE III Decentralised Actions 801 11,176 40 841 Centralised Actions 48 Not applicable 35 83 1996 YFE III Decentralised Actions 522 7,725 26 548 Centralised Actions 1— Not applicable 1— 1— 1 Interim figures not available at short notice. Funding: Decentralised part of the programme. 1995: 1.273 MECU for youth exchange activities; 158 MECU for youth worker training. 1996: 1.290 MECU for Youth Exchange activities; 174 MECU for youth worker training. Figures for the Leonardo da Vinci programme are available from 1995, when the programme began, and are as follows:
153WFigures for the SOCRATES programme are available from 1995, when the programme began, and are as follows:
SOCRATES Programme funding Total applications Successful projects 1in £000 1995 Centralised 2134 projects 68 2,962 Decentralised 32,429 participants 1,795 1,741 Decentralised 426,933 mobility grants 11,734 7,668 12,371 1996 Centralised 145 projects 84 4,301 Decentralised 3,507 participants 2,824 54,403 Decentralised 26,259 mobility grants 6— 7,447 16,151
HORIZON, NOW, ADAPT AND EMPLOYMENT Programme Successful projects Unsuccessful projects GB budget allocation (ECU) 1990–1994 GB budget allocation (ECU) 1995–1999 HORIZON 219 Not Available 15,670,468 — NOW 96 Not Available 5,415,658 — ADAPT 80 131 — 313,282,000 EMPLOYMENT 230 400 — — HORIZON Disability (66) Not Available — 44,710,000 HORIZON Disadvantaged/Integra1 2(33) Not available — 38,146,000 NOW (79) Not Available — 48,781,000 YOUTHSTART (52) Not Available — 42,245,000 In 1995 the new EMPLOYMENT Community Initiative was launched with HORIZON, NOW strands and a new YOUTHSTART strand. For the first round (1995–1997) there were these three strands with the HORIZON, strand being further divided into Disadvantaged and Disability. For the second round (closing date for applications 11 April 1997) the HORIZON Disadvantage strand has been replaced by INTEGRA. 1 HORIZON Disadvantaged round 1/INTEGRA round 2. 2 Round 1 only.
§ Mr. MacShaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many(a) successful and (b) unsuccessful attempts have been made by his Department in the last four years to obtain funds from the European social fund; and what funds have already been allocated to the United Kingdom under this fund. [12418]
§ Mr. PaiceThe Department obtains funds from the European social fund within the overall allocations for the structural funds agreed in advance with the European Commission. In the years 1993 to 1996, 729 separate payments were received. There has been only one occasion in the last four years when we were not sent the money requested, due to a misunderstanding with the Commission: the sums have since been received.
The following table shows the sums allocated to UK for the European social fund over the last four years:
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ESF allocations to the UK (including community initiatives) 1993 1994 1995 1996 Total: million ecu, 1996 prices 866 795 986 1,037 £/ecu rates 1.285 1.292 1.221 1.229 Total: £ million, 1996 prices 675 615 808 844 SOCRATES projects are transnational and can be divided into centralised and decentralised actions. For decentralised actions the UK is allocated a block sum by formula to distribute amongst UK participants. For centralised actions there is no separate UK allocation, rather the funding for the projects is shared between participant organisations. The figures shown for SOCRATES centralised actions represent the funding made available for transnational projects co-ordinated by UK organisations.
1 In January 1997 1 ecu = £0.7373.
2 Includes ERASMUS Thematic Networks, COMENIUS 2 and 3(i), LINGUA actions A and D, Open and Distance Learning, and Adult Education.
3 Individual participants in LINGUA, ARION and COMENIUS 1 and 3(ii) projects.
4 Individual student mobility grants under ERASMUS.
5 1996 figures still provisional.
6 Figure not yet available for 1996–97.