HC Deb 20 July 2001 vol 372 cc561-2W
Andrew George

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what public funds are budgeted to be available for each calendar year for which budgets have been set and which would be eligible to provide the public match funding for Objective 1 projects in each of the four Objective 1 regions, indicating (a) which funds have budgets identified to be spent in Objective 1 regions, (b) which are budgeted on a wider than Objective 1 region basis but lower than national basis and (c) which are set at a national level. [5300]

Mr. Boateng

The overall EU allocation to the UK's four Objective 1 regions for the 2000–06 period is £3.2 billion. Resources for match funding were provided for within the total departmental spending settlements following SR2000. These resources can be obtained from a number of sources at national, regional and local levels—e.g. central Government Departments, Regional Development Agencies, local government.

Financial profiles for UK Objective 1 regions for the period 2000–06 can be found at www.dti.gov.uk/europe/structural.