§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which market towns have received grants for regeneration under the New Deal for Market Towns, stating(a) the amount and (b) the purpose of each grant. [46600]
§ Alun MichaelThe Market Town Initiative is being taken forward on DEFRA's behalf by the Regional Development Agencies, working with the Countryside Agency and local partners and using the £37 million of Government funding announced in the Rural White Paper. We hope that match funding will raise the figure to some £100 million. The Department does not plan to monitor the amount and purpose of individual grants made in each town. The process at a local level is important in itself. Most towns are still at the stage of community consultation prior to agreeing action plans, and few project grants have been approved. I understand the total grant allocation by RDAs to individual towns remain indicative. The table below lists the towns included in the programme to date.
- North East (12)
- Northumberland
- Alnwick
- Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Haltswhistle
- Hexham
- Morpeth
- Seahouses
- Wooler
- County Durham
- Barnard Castle
- Crook
- Middleton-in-Teesdale
- Stanhope
- Cleveland
- Guisborough
- North West (14)
- Cumbria
- Cockermouth
1027W - Egremont
- Keswick
- Longton
- Millom
- Penrith
- Windermere with Arableside
- Ulverston
- Wigton
- Lancashire
- Barnoldswick
- Carnforth
- Clitheroe
- Garstang
- Padiham
- Cheshire
- Sandbach
- East Midlands (13)
- Derbyshire
- Belper
- Bolsover
- Chapel en le Frith
- Lincolnshire
- Market Rasen
- Spalding
- Louth
- Leicestershire
- Market Harborough
- Melton Mowbray
- Northamptonshire
- Desborough/Rothwell
- Thrapston
- Rutland
- Oakham
- Nottinghamshire
- Ollerton
- Retford
- Yorkshire & the Humber (12)
- North Yorks
- Bentham
- Malton & Norton
- Pateley Bridge
- Thirsk
- Whitby
- North Lincolnshire
- Brigg
- East Riding of Yorks
- Hornsea
- Market Weighton
- South Yorks
- Thorne
- Penistone
- West Yorks
- Todmorden
- Otley
- West Midlands (19)
- Shropshire
- Craven Arms
- Oswestry
- Wern
- Bridgnorth
- Highley
- Alveley
- Market Drayton
- Whitchurch
- Herefordshire
- Kington
- Ledbury
- Bromyard
1028W - Worcestershire
- Evesham
- Bewdley
- Pershore
- Staffordshire
- Leek
- Uttoxeter
- Warwickshire
- Alcester
- Atherstone
- Polesworth
- South East (5)
- Kent
- Hythe
- Cranbrook
- Minster
- East Sussex
- Battle
- Heathfield
- South West (16)
- Devon
- Okehampton
- Hatherleigh
- Holsworthy
- South Molton
- Crediton
- Gt Torrington
- Tavistock
- Cornwall
- Launceston
- Helston
- Dorset
- Bridport
- Somerset
- Minehead
- Langport
- Gloucester
- Lydney (Forest of Dean)
- Wiltshire
- Devises
- Melksham
- Bath and NE Somerset
- Norton/Radstock
- East of England (20)
- Cambridgeshire
- Wisbech
- March
- Chatteris
- Whittlesey
- Ely
- Essex
- Walton-on-the-Naze
- Manningtree
- Harwich
- Brightlingsea
- Norfolk
- Dereham
- Walton
- Downham Market
- Aylsham
- Harleston
- Diss
- Suffolk
- Beccles
- Brandon
- Wickham Market
- Debenham
- Woodbridge
- Total 112