To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many staff work in each department of the South West RDA. [98302]
In the South West Regional Development Agency there are in each department the following:Development: 94 staff (including two student surveyors)Enterprise and Innovation: 71 staffCorporate Services: 29 staffStrategy and Communications: 36 staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many projects were started by the South West RDA in (a) 2000β01, (b) 2001β02 and (c) 2002β03. [98303]
Since the advent of single pot funding, i.e. from 1 April 2002βend January 2003,219 projects have been started by, that is, received funding approval from, the South West Regional Development Agency.The information is not available for earlier years.