§ Lord Sainsbury of TurvilleMy right honourable friend Minister for Industry and the Regions (Jacqui Smith) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
I have published the reported mid-year tier three outputs for April to September 2004 for England's regional development agencies (RDAs). The RDAs have advised that they are broadly on track to achieve the annual targets set for 2004–05 in their corporate plans.
The figures cover the creation and safeguarding of jobs, the amount of brownfield land brought back into use, the number of businesses added to the regional economies, the number of learning opportunities created and the amount of private sector investment attracted benefiting deprived areas, all as a result of RDA activity.
Copies of the mid-year output results have been placed in the Libraries of the House and the results have also been placed on the DTI website at http://www.dti.gov.uk/rda/info.