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Eu Funding

Volume 270: debated on Monday 29 January 1996

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) how much in (a) ecus and (b) pounds by standard region and in total the United Kingdom received under the European Leonardo programme and its predecessor schemes over the last available five-year period; [11649](2) how much in

(a) ecus and (b) pounds by standard region and in total is allocated to the United Kingdom from the European Leonardo programme under the current financial perspectives. [11648]

The main predecessors of the Leonardo programme were the Comett, Force and Petra programmes. The following tables relate to funding received in the United Kingdom as a whole under these programmes; regional allocations are not available. No financial details of funds received within the Leonardo programme in 1995, its first year of operation, have yet been published by the European Commission.

Table 1: Figures in 000 ECU
YearComettForcePetra
19901
19913,04821,055
19926,4117,3802,796
19933,8713,866
19943,677Not available3,274
1Figures not available for 1990.
2Excludes placement/exchange activity.
Table 2: Figures in £000
Exchange rate I ECU=£0.8472
YearCometsForcePetra
19901
19912,5822894
19925,4326,2522,369
19933,2803,275
19943,115Not available2,774
1Figures not available for 1990.
2Excludes placement/exchange activity.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment ( I ) how much in (a) ecus and (b) pounds by standard region and in total the United Kingdom received from the European Socrates programme and its predecessor schemes over the last available five years. [11652](2) how much in

(a) ecus and (b) pounds by standard region and in total is allocated to the United Kingdom from the European Socrates programme under the current financial perspectives. [11653]

The main predecessors of the Socrates programme were the Erasmus and Lingua programmes. The following table relates to funding allocated to the United Kingdom as a whole under these programmes; regional allocations are not available. No financial details of grants awarded under the Socrates programme in 1995, its first year of operation, have yet been published by the European Commission.

ERASMUS1LINGUA
YearECU000£0002ECU000£0002
19905,3724,551n/an/a
19916,8225,78032,15631,827
European Social Fund Allocations 1991–95
1994 prices using an exchange rate of £1 = 1.2 ecu
Community initiatives are included between 1991–93 and excluded for 1994 and 1995
19911992199319941995Total
Mecu£ millionMecu£ millionMecu£ millionMecu£ millionMecu£ millionMecu£ million
Objective 1
Northern Ireland75538059786149405042332255
Merseyside1463950429681
Highlands and Islands187971714
Total7553805978611038610991445350
Objective 2
North-East England25172921272124202621131100
East England22417282026217858
East Midlands165761311
West Midlands1913221620163025312612296
North West England51366044564431263327231177
West Cumbria32323222221310
West Scotland1813211620162017211710079
East Scotland64757588873629
South Wales141017121612151216137859
North East Wales221222265
Yorkshire and Humberside1252126225143
East London and Lea Valley165651210
Thanet1111122
Plymouth222244
Total162113189138177139170144179149877683
Objectives 3 and 4 Total33142623713095484574213515544622,2081,841
Objective 5b
South West England43222243541714
Rural Wales43222243541714
Highland and Islands243222287
Dumfries and Galloway1111122
The Marches1111122
Northern Uplands1224466
Lincolnshire1111122
East Anglia111122
Borders of Scotland1111122
Central Scotland/Tayside1111122
Grampian1111122
Total1296666171521196255
Grand total5634376465128096637115968637213,5922,929
1These programmes commenced in 1994.
2These programme areas were redefined from 1994.
3Objectives 3 and 4 are national programmes not divided regionally. 1991–93 figures cover both objectives which were amalgamated into Objective 3 from 1994 onwards.

ERASMUS1

LINGUA

Year

ECU000

£0002

ECU000

£0002

19929,2497,836

44,210

43,567

19939,5828,118

44,769

44,040

199410,3288,750

45,283

44,476

1Includes LINGUA Action II.

2At 1 ECU = £0.8472.

3LINGUA Actions I, III, IV and VB only.

4LINGUA Actions I, III, IV and V only.

n/a not available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much in (a) Ecus and (b) pound sterling by standard region and in total the United Kingdom received under the European social fund over the last available five years. [11660]

Information by standard region is not available except at disproportionate cost. The following table shows the amounts of European social fund as allocated to the United Kingdom in the years 1991–95.