HC Deb 21 April 2004 vol 420 cc570-1W
Mr. Peter Robinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 3 February 2004,Official Report, column 868W on PEACE II Programme, if he will break down each of the monthly figures by organisation to which money was allocated; under what measure number the PEACE II money was allocated; and how much money not allocated from the PEACE II funds is accessible by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. [166832]

Mr. Pearson

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development's budget for 2003–04, excluding PEACE II, totalled £478.5 million.

It is not possible to provide a breakdown of the monthly expenditure figures provided in my answer of 3 February 2004, Official Report, column 868W. The figures given then were extracted from data that was collected by the Special EU Programmes Body for weekly reports and was not broken down at that time to project level.

The following data is drawn from the Structural Funds database at 16 April 2004 and represents a more up-to-date position of the expenditure entered onto the database during the six months in question:

Month PEACE II Measure Project Amount paid (£)
1.7A Fermanagh College 44,565
Family Farm Development Ltd. 163,312
Countryside Services Ltd. 113,459
Laganside Rural Development Ltd. 66,643
Rural Area Partnership In Derry 23,617
September 2003 5.7 Northern Ireland Seafood 33,774
October 2003 1.6 Acorn Business center 23,353
Loughgiel Farmers Development Group Ltd. 2,315
Coleraine LAG for Enterprise 70,416
GG Enterprises Ltd. 30,318
Info-Net IT Services 31,442
Magherafelt Area Partnership Ltd. 73,051
1.7A Family Farm Development Ltd. 210,629
Laganside Rural Development Ltd. 70,376
Countryside Services Ltd. 179,937
Fermanagh College 67,500
Rural Area Partnership In Derry 1,925
5.7 Northern Ireland Seafood 89,748
November 2003 1.2B Mourne Heritage Trust 73,896
Fermanagh Lakeland Tourism 48,100
Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage Trust 12,817
1.6 Armagh College 65,227
DDA Training Services 3,879
Fermanagh College 26,725
Info-Net IT Services 6,706
Desertmartin and District Farming Group 1,580
North Down and Ards Institute 6,246
College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise 8,652,472
Magherafelt Area Partnership Ltd. 2,494
Newry and Kilkeel Institute of Further and Higher Education 62,358
1.7A Fermanagh College 26,648
Laganside Rural Development Ltd. 16,749
Newry and Kilkeel Institute of Further and Higher Education 80,747
Rural Area Partnership In Perry 75,477
4.2B Mourne Heritage Trust 20,000
5.7 Northern Ireland Seafood 197,861
December 2003 1.2B National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland 2,934
1.6 Trillick and District Farmers Countryside Group 5,300
Down Livestock Group 1,128
Loughgiel Farmers Development Group Ltd. 2.315
DDA Training Services 7,820
Coleraine LAG for Enterprise 6,929
Markethill Suckler Farmers Devt Gp Ltd. 2,000
1.7A Laganside Rural Development Ltd. 57,233
4.2B Cookstown Tourist Information center 4,698
5.7 Northern Ireland Seafood 51,456