To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the local authority eligibility criteria are for working neighbourhood funding. (182544)

Three criteria were used to determine eligibility for the Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF):

Any authority that has 20 per cent. or more of its lower super output areas (LSOAs) in the most deprived decile on the employment domain; or

Any authority that has 20 per cent. or more of its lower super output areas (LSOAs) in the most deprived decile on the overall IMD; or

Any local authority that is ranked among the top 40 districts on an equally weighted measure of key benefit claim rate and employment rate.

Authorities were only required to meet one of the above criteria to qualify.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which local authorities which were in receipt of neighbourhood renewal funding will not receive working neighbourhood funding. (182567)

21 authorities which received neighbourhood renewal funding from 2006-2008 have not qualified for working neighbourhoods fund. These authorities are listed:

Barnet

Brighton and Hove

Bristol

Coventry

Croydon

Derby

Dudley

Ealing

Enfield

Hammersmith and Fulham

Kirklees

Leeds

Lewisham

Mansfield

North Tyneside

Norwich

Penwith

Plymouth

Rotherham

Wakefield

Waltham Forest.