To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her Department has budgeted for neighbourhood management pathfinders in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. (233264)

Funding for neighbourhood management pathfinders now forms part of the un-ringfenced area based grant. The allocation for 2008-09 is £10.7 million; proposed allocations for 2009-10 and 2010-11 are £5.1 million and £4.9 million respectively. 2008-09 is the final year of funding for the first round of pathfinders; the 2009-11 figures therefore represent funding for the second round pathfinders only.