European Regional Development Fund

HC Deb 03 February 2004 vol 417 cc811-2W

Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much money her Department has received from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in each year since 1998; and how much her Department estimates it will receive from the ERDF in each year until 2006, broken down by(a) capital and (b) resource income. [151951]

Mr. Caborn

The Department does not receive money from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) directly. However, projects in the English regions that fall within DCMS' policy responsibility have received the following amount of ERDF funds in each year since 1998¹

	ERDF (£)
1998	62,057,761
1999	47,558,076
2000	37,245,008
2001	41,453,979
2002	41,988,937
2003	52,965,361

We expect that ERDF expenditure on cultural-related projects will remain at broadly this level until 2006.

¹The Department has been unable to break down the figures by (a) capital and (b) resource income as the necessary codings have changed year-on-year.