To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what funding the POLYNET study into Mega-City Regions has received from (a) her Department or its predecessor and (b) the INTERREG programme. (213539)

In 2003 Communities and Local Government's predecessor department awarded the POLYNET project £151,450 in matchfunding to assist in developing their bid for North West Europe Interreg IIIB programme funding.

POLYNET, led by the UK's Institute of Community Studies (now the Young Foundation), subsequently received a €1,144,114 ERDF grant from the Interreg IIIB North West Europe programme.