§ Mr. WoodwardTo ask the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the(a) schemes and (b) funding made available to St. Helens South since 1998 under the New Deal for Communities. [134647]
§ Yvette CooperThere are no New Deal for Communities (NDC) Partnerships in St. Helens South, and so no NDC funding has been made available in the area. However St. Helens does receive Neighbourhood Renewal Funding.
The 39 NDC areas were chosen by firstly considering the degree, intensity and extent of deprivation in different areas, based on the 1998 (then current) Index of Local Deprivation. Secondly, we aimed to have a regional spread, so that lessons could be learnt from experiences across the whole country. Each NDC Partnership has a grant of between £35 million to £62 million to spend over the 10-year lifetime of the Programme.