Business

Sarah Teather

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many business improvement districts have been established in each region. (225394)

I am the Minister responsible for policy on business improvement districts and have been asked to reply.

*Number of established bids in each region*
Region	Number of bids
London	17
South East	7
South West	8
Eastern	3
East Midlands	6
West Midlands	9
North East	2
North West	10
Yorkshire and Humberside	1
Total bids	63

Volume 480: debated on Thursday 16 October 2008