HC Deb 20 April 2000 vol 348 cc612-3W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the number and value of(a) bids for and (b) grants made in each of the last three financial years for which figures are available, for each (i) area-based and (ii) other regeneration-related initiative for which his Department is responsible. [119798]

Ms Beverley Hughes

The information requested is not held centrally and could not be collected in the time available. I will write shortly with the information to the hon. Member.

Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list for each(a) area-based and (b) other regeneration-related initiative for which his Department is responsible (i) the amount budgeted and (ii) the total expended in each financial year for the planned lifetime of each initiative. [119793]

Ms Beverley Hughes

Expenditure since 1997 and the amounts budgeted for this financial year and for 2001–02, for the area-based and other regeneration-related initiatives for which my Department is responsible are set out as follows. The level of funding for each of these initiatives beyond March 2002 is being considered in the current spending review. Information on planned budgets and the total expenditure in previous years for other regeneration programmes may be found in the departmental Annual Report.

£ million
(i) Amount budgeted 2000–01 2001–02
Area-based initiatives
Single Regeneration Budget 813.8 878.5
New Deal for Communities 120.7 450.0
Other regeneration-related initiatives
European Regional Development Fund 286.2 231.2
Coalfields Regeneration Trust 20.6 18.2

£ million
(ii) Total expenditure 1997–98 1998–99 1999–20001
Area-based initiatives
Single Regeneration Budget 458.8 560.9 679.1
New Deal for Communities 0.2 48.5
Other regeneration-related initiatives
European Regional Development fund 191.5 229.4 336.2
Coalfields Regeneration Trust 1.0
1 Provisional outturn