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EU Funding

Volume 455: debated on Tuesday 16 January 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of EU funding allocated in Northern Ireland in the period 2000 to 2006 has been (a) spent and (b) returned. (114976)

The following table provides details of the EU allocations and the value of claims submitted in euro—with the percentage of the allocation claimed for each Structural Fund Programme and Community Initiative in Northern Ireland up to the end of December 2006. No amounts have been returned to or decommitted by the European Commission to date. All 2000-06 programmes can continue to spend until December 2008.

Programme/Community Initiative

Total EU allocation (€)

Total EU element declared (€)

Percentage declared

Total EU element returned (€)

Percentage returned

Building Sustainable Prosperity

929,115,400

712,900,222

76.73

0.00

0

Peace II (N.I only)

467,000,000

409,549,085

87.70

0.00

0

Urban II

10,784,515

6,420,456

59.53

0.00

0

Equal

11,896,437

6,966,048

58.56

0.00

0

Leader +

15,689,259

10,469,346

66.73

0.00

0

Interreg IIIA

82,213,093

46,255,818

56.26

0.00

0

Overall total

1,516,698,704

1,192,580,975

78.63

0.00

0