To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the six areas designated to receive assistance under the English Objective 5b Structural Fund Programme. [66901]

In England the six areas designated by the European Commission to receive assistance under the Objective 5b Structural Funds Programme are:

The South West—Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and parts of Devon and Somerset;

The Marches—most of Shropshire and parts of Hereford and Worcester;

The Northern Uplands—parts of Lancashire, North Yorks, Durham, Cumbria and Northumberland:

Lincolnshire—excluding the City of Lincoln and other mainly urban areas;

East Anglia—the Fens, rural Norfolk and the Waveney Valley; and

Midlands Uplands—the Peak District of Staffordshire and Derbyshire.