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Regional Planning and Development

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 10 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what funding her Department has provided for each Regional Centre of Excellence in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what the (a) title and (b) postal address is of each such centre. (262691)

The most recent year figures for funding provided to Regional Centres of Excellence are for 2007-08:

£ million

East

1.51

East Midlands

l

London

1.08

North East

0.81

North West

1.14

South East

1.36

South West

1.07

West Midlands

1.02

Yorkshire and Humber

0.91

The Regional Centres of Excellence were subsumed with Regional Improvement Partnerships into Regional Improvemement and Efficiency Partnerships in April 2008. Due to the fact that Regional Centres of Excellence no longer exist there are no offices in place.