To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what the English Partnerships funding allocations, broken down by Government office region, have been each year since their inception. [35911]
English Partnerships became fully operational from April 1994. Its total expenditure, in £ million, on its development programme, excluding expenditure on the Greenwich Peninsula, over the 3 years since its inception has been as follows:
| £ million | |
| Year | Expenditure |
| 1994–95 | 225.4 |
| 1995–96 | 236.7 |
| 1996–97 | 235 |
English Partnerships' regional offices are not currently coterminous with those of the Government Offices for the Regions. Spend is therefore not recorded by Government Office Region.
English Partnerships expenditure by region, excluding Greenwich, is however recorded as follows:
£ million
| |||
Region
| 1994–95
| 1995–96
| 1996–97
|
| North-East | 47.7 | 34.3 | 31.8 |
| North-West | 52.9 | 52.0 | 50.4 |
| Yorks & Humber | 43.8 | 55.0 | 40.5 |
| Midlands | 63.4 | 58.0 | 67.8 |
| South-East | 10.3 | 25.6 | 36.0 |
| South-West | 7.3 | 11.8 | 8.5 |
| Total | 225.4 | 236.7 | 235.0 |