§ Mr. MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 17 January 2000, Official Report, columns 258–59W, on match funding, (a) what structural funds grants were received in the United Kingdom for (i) 1999 and (ii) preceding years, (b) what was the total of associated matched funding for that sum, and (c) if he will initiate a scheme to record the sources of matched funding for each grant received in 2000. [108966]
§ Mr. CabornAs explained in my previous answer of 17 January 2000, Official Report, columns 258–59W, there are no specific annual allocations to structural funds programmes and grants for individual years therefore cannot be identified. However the total value of grants to the UK's structural funds programmes which ended in 1999 amounted to approximately £5.5 billion.
The previous answer also explained that the level of match funding varied from programme to programme, and depended on the nature of the various projects. That information was not recorded centrally.
It would require disproportionate effort to record and collate the precise source of match funding for each of the many thousands of projects which receive structural funds assistance.