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Regional Development Agencies

Volume 482: debated on Tuesday 4 November 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what projects are funded by her Department through regional development agencies; and what the budget of each is for 2008-09. (233263)

My Department does not fund projects through regional development agencies directly. Regional development agencies are funded through the Single Programme, which is administered by their sponsor Department, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. CLG is one of six contributing Departments to the Single Programme and is contributing £1.548 billion to the Single Programme for 2008-09. Spending priorities for each regional development agency are set out in their corporate plans, which are available on their websites.

Allocations for 2008-09 are set out in the following table:

Regional development agency

Total Single programme allocation for 2008-09(£1000)

Advantage West Midlands

300,638

East of England Development Agency

133,401

East Midlands Development Agency

163,000

London Development Agency

344,672

North West Development Agency

385,008

One North East

245,500

South East England Development Agency

157,811

South West Development Agency

163,008

Yorkshire Forward

299,462

Total

2,192,500