HC Deb 19 December 2001 vol 377 cc461-5W
Mr. Swire

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the projects(a) being undertaken and (b) completed by the South West of England Regional Development Agency. [23752]

Alan Johnson

In most cases the projects supported by the South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) are undertaken on a partnership basis. Projects for which the SWRDA provided more than £25,000 in 2000–01 are listed in the RDA Annual Report 2000–01 which is available in the Libraries of the House or can be obtained direct from the SWRDA.

Sub-regional projects the RDA supported in 2000–01 by providing more than £25,000:

  • Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole:
    • A Model for a 'Virtual' Centre of Excellence in Coastal Zone
    • Management Training
    • Agri-connexion, Kingston Maurward
    • Allendale Heritage and Community Centre, Wimborne
    • Awareness, Advice and Action for Skills Development, Bournemouth
    • Bournemouth and Poole Learning Network
    • Bournemouth Incubator Centre
    • Developing Fast-Track Training for ICT Technicians
    • Development Manager for Lyme Regis Development Trust
    • Higher Barn, Melbury Osmond, Dorchester
    • Higher Education South West Business Net (HESWBusNet), Bournemouth
    • Honeybrook Farm Visitors Centre, Wimborne
    • Kimmeridge Marine Education Centre
    • Norden Park and Ride, Corfe, Wareham
    • Poole Arts Centre
    • Shaftesbury Advice Centre Weymouth Skate Park
  • Cornwall and the Isles of Stilly:
    • Business Information Service (Enterprise Edge)
    • Celtic Film and Television Festival
    • Chacewater Village Hall
    • Cornwall Objective One Technical Assistance
    • Combined Universities in Cornwall
    • Coverack Space 2000
    • Developing Fast-Track Training for ICT Technicians
    • Digital Peninsula Network
    • Eden Institute Centre
    • Eden Public Realm Works, St. Austell
    • Gaia Centre, Delabole
    • Geevor Tin Mine Emergency Works, St. Just
      • 463W
    • Great Onslow, Bodmin Moor
    • Green Park Feasibility
    • Helston Business Park
    • Ladock Parish Hall
    • Let's do IT
    • Long Rock, Penzance
    • Lower Pengegon
    • Mylor Yacht Harbour
    • Plot F, Saltash Parkway (Habit Diamond)
    • Spanning the Century, Camel Trail, Padstow
    • St. Austell Town Centre
    • Tolvaddon Energy Park
    • Towednack and Nancledra Community Hall
    • Train Net
    • UFP Camborne, Pool, Redruth
    • Youth Link—Penwith and Kerrier
  • Devon, Plymouth and Torbay:
    • 181 Rendell Street, Plymouth
    • Achievement Plus, Plymouth
    • Agri-BIP Rural Business Support
    • Basic Employability Skills
    • Bovey Tracey Youth Café
    • Derriton Viaduct, Holsworthy
    • Devon and West Somerset Key Fund
    • East Devon Business Centre, Honiton
    • Exeter Advanced Technologies
    • Exeter Innovation Centre
    • High Street and Peel Street Redevelopment, Plymouth
    • Honicknowle Employment Project, Plymouth
    • Infrastructure Improvements, Sowton, Exeter
    • Jersey Farm, Sampford Peverell
    • Kingsbridge Age Concern and Rest Centre
    • Marine Projects, Plymouth
    • Millbay Laundry, Plymouth
    • ORBIT, Ottery St. Mary
    • Pall Cycleway, Ilfracombe
    • Pitts Cleave, Tavistock
    • Plymouth Job to Job Subsidy
    • Rural Counselling Programme
    • Sourton—Lake Cycleway
    • Springboard to Learning, Plymouth
    • St. Sidwells Centre, Exeter
    • Stonehouse Creek Community Centre, Plymouth
    • Tamar Science Park, Plymouth
    • The Soundhouse, Plymouth
    • Theatre Royal Production and Education Centre, Plymouth
    • Wallabrook Viaduct
    • Yeo Bridge, Barnstaple
    464W
  • Gloucestershire:
    • Bream Community Centre Refurbishment Scheme
    • Coney Hill Neighbourhood College Centre
    • Cranfield Medical Research Centre
    • CREATE Training, Lydney
    • Developing Fast-Track Training for ICT Technicians
    • Fixing the Future—Solution for IT Services Skills
    • Forest of Dean Radio Project
    • Gloucestershire Development Agency—Support for SRP
    • Gloucestershire Innovation Centre
    • Gloucestershire Network Neighbourhoods Projects Network on behalf of the Gloucestershire Training Group Centre for Engineering Excellence
    • Hesters Way Community Resource Centre
    • Lister Petter mixed-use regeneration site, Dursley
    • Matson Lane Community College Health and ICT Resource Centre
    • Skill Joy
    • The Link Group
  • Somerset:
    • Baird Clothing
    • Bowdens Farm, Langport
    • Bussman Cooper
    • Computer-based, Internet-linked Heavy Goods Vehicle Provision in the South West Peninsula
    • E-Business Skills Development Programme
    • Filton Econet Partnership for Sustainable Business Development in the South West region
    • Morlands Factory Site, Glastonbury
    • Somerset Skills Support Project
    • South West Marine Sector Training and Development
    • The Western Colleges Consortium for On-Line Learning
    • Tourism Task Force—Bristol, Bath, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset
    • Watchet Youth Centre
    • Watchet Marina
  • Wiltshire and Swindon
    • Berwick St. John Community Resource Centre
    • Charlton Park Farms, Office Development, Malmesbury
    • Easton Farm, Tourist Facility, Berwick St. John
    • Hoechst Trespaphan
    • Little Durnford Farms, Business and Workspace, Salisbury
    • Multimedia in Wiltshire
    • Oakley Business Park, Workspace Units, Dinton
    • Purton Down Biotech Incubator Centre
    • R&K Wise
    • Skills at Work in Wiltshire and Swindon
    • St. Martins Farm, Tourist Facility, Warminster
    • Swindon Pressings Ltd.
    • The Beeches Court Farm, Tourist Facility, Calne
    • The Western Colleges Consortium for On-Line Learning
    • Ushers
    465W
  • Bristol and West of England:
    • Cabot Community Sports Centre, Bristol
    • E-Business Skills Development Programme
    • Emersons Innovation
    • Engineering for Avon
    • Harbourside Project, Bristol
    • Nailey Farm, St. Catherine's, Bath
    • Old Town Quarry, Weston-super-Mare
    • Safe and Warm Phase 2, Bristol

Targets
Land and property—Partnership Investment Programme(PIP)—outputs
Private Investment generated (£000) 61,964,750
Area of brownfield land reclaimed/brought back into use (differentiated by soft and hard end use) (hectares) 39 SE
Woodland created (trees planted or hectares) 0
Treatment of contaminated land (hectares) 0
Jobs—number created and safeguarded 1,140
New industrial commercial floorspace created (square metres) 27,701
Accessibility improved between homes and workplaces (length of footpath/cycleway created) 0
Housing units facilitated on brownfield land (number of housing units) 250
Spend (£000) 6,000,000
Land and property—non PIP outputs
Jobs—number created and safeguarded 1,790
Private investment generated (£) 20,500,000
Area of brownfield land reclaimed/brought back into use 84.9 ha (55 SE)
Woodland created (trees planted or hectares) 0
Treatment of contaminated land 29.9 HE
New industrial/refurbished floorspace created 51,800
Accessibility improved between homes and workplaces 10
Housing units facilitated on brownfield land 340
Spend (£000) 27,642,000
Single Regeneration Budget1
Jobs created/safeguarded1 2,410/180
Homes and buildings with improved security 4,125
Voluntary organisations and community groups supported1 4,205/184
New business start-ups1 572
140
Hectares of land improved/reclaimed for open space and improved/reclaimed/serviced for development (of perhaps a combination of these) 17
Private finance attracted (£000) 214,080
Spend (£000) 26,726,000
Rural Programme
Number of grants made or projects supported 429
Area of work space created/safeguarded (square metres) 33,686
Match funding attracted as a percentage of RDA's direct cash input (£ million) 26.4
Number of child care places created 100
Spend (£) 9,388,000
Jobs created/safeguarded 2,167
Business started up and surviving at least one year 283
Number/areas of redundant buildings converted to commercial use 260
Number of training places created 1,593
Number of new improved facilities 404
Number of additional visitors 99,649
1 Figures for ethnic minorities
2 Million