To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much gap funding has been awarded, broken down by district council area; and what the purpose of each award was. [123796]
A list detailing the amount of gap funding awarded by district council area, and a list of projects awarded gap funding by district council area have been placed in the House of Commons Library.The purpose of each gap funding award was to ensure that projects funded under the 1994–99 round of Structural Funds (PEACE I and The Northern Ireland Single Programme) which were considered likely to be eligible for support under the new round, 2000–06, were sustained during the negotiation of the PEACE II and Building Sustainable Prosperity Programmes.
| Table 1: List of the amounts of gap funding awarded by district council area | ||
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| District council area | Amount of gap funding awarded (PEACE II) | Amount of gap funding awarded (BSP) |
| Antrim | 89,301 | — |
| Ards | 245,900 | 87,934 |
| Armagh | 594,875 | — |
| Ballymena | 151,751 | 58,918 |
| Ballymoney | 73,669 | — |
| Banbridge | 104,198 | — |
| Belfast | 8,671,977 | 483,891 |
| Carrickfergus | 119,888 | — |
| Castlereagh | 53,456 | — |
| Coleraine | 76,445 | 46,105 |
| Cookstown | 294,243 | — |
| Craigavon | 488,620 | 153,948 |
| Derry | 1,938,126 | 684,987 |
| Down | 178,633 | — |
| Dungannon | 590,515 | — |
| Fermanagh | 401,295 | 35,508 |
| Lame | 183,286 | — |
| Limavady | 285,284 | 77,918 |
| Lisburn | 570,509 | — |
| Magherafelt | 128,190 | 142,750 |
| Moyle | 181,422 | — |
| Newry and Mourne | 580,326 | 51,309 |
| Newtownabbey | 108,341 | 99,466 |
| North Down | 119,293 | — |
| Omagh | 451,493 | — |
| Strabane | 544,305 | — |
| Unclassified | 476,782 | 15,442,818 |
| Total | 17,702,123 | 17,365,552 |
Note
Unclassified successful gap funding applications are those that either clearly benefited two or more district councils or that don't contain sufficient address information and therefore cannot be classified within any specific district council.
Table 2: List of projects awarded gap funding by district council
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Antrim district council
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| BSP | N/a |
| Peace | Harps project Just Kids Afterschools Club Youth Sport North East |