To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much capital spending is planned to be brought forward by his Department to (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10. (260608)

This Department has no capital expenditure brought forward to 2008-09 or 2009-10 but the Regional Development Agencies (RDA) are bringing forward £97.6 million planned capital expenditure from 2010-11 to 2009-10 as part of the fiscal stimulus programme.