§ Mr. Edward DaveyTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister what funding was provided(a) by his Department in total and (b) through non-departmental public bodies to each Urban Regeneration Company for 2003–04; and what funding is projected in each case for 2004–05. [156475]
§ Yvette CooperThe Office of the Deputy Prime Minister does not provide funding directly to any Urban Regeneration Company (URC) All funding is provided by the partners in each URC. This usually comprises the local Regional Development Agency (RDA), the local authority or authorities, and English Partnerships (EP). The table below shows the estimated revenue funding provided/projected by EP and the various RDAs to the1124W individual URCs for 2003–04 and 2004–05. Funding for development projects is not normally provided to the URCs themselves; expenditure on projects is incurred by the partners on the basis of strategies agreed by the URCs.
Revenue allocations to URCs £ URC 2003–04 2004–05 Bradford City Regeneration 710,000 360,000 CPR Regeneration 500,000 500,000 Catalyst Corby 500,000 500,000 Derby Cityscape 500,000 500.000 Gloucester Heritage n/a 500,000 Hull Citybuild 650,000 650,000 Leicester Regeneration 500,000 500,000 Liverpool Vision 791,000 791,000 New East Manchester 620,000 620,000 Sandwell 500,000 500,000 Sheffield One 710,000 710,000 Sunderland Arc 520,000 520,000 The New Swindon Company 500,000 500,000 Tees Valley Regeneration 500.000 500,000 Walsall n/a 470,000 West Lakes Renaissance 200.000 200,000 Notes: 1. Bradford and West Lakes do not receive revenue funding from English Partnerships (EP) 2. All other figures are collated EP and Regional Development Agency estimates 3. Gloucester and Walsall were only established towards the end of FY 2003–04