Regional Development Agencies: Official Hospitality

Anne Main

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (1) how much Advantage West Midlands has spent on hospitality and entertainment in each year since it was created; (267660)

(2) how much the East of England Development Agency has spent on hospitality and entertainment in each year since it was created;

(3) how much the East Midlands Development Agency has spent on hospitality and entertainment in each year since it was created;

(4) how much the South East England Development Agency has spent on hospitality and entertainment in each year since it was created;

(5) how much the London Development Agency has spent on hospitality and entertainment in each year since it was created;

(6) how much the North West Regional Development Agency has spent on hospitality and entertainment in each year since it was created;

(7) how much One North East has spent on hospitality and entertainment in each year since it was created;

(8) how much the South West of England Regional Development Agency has spent on hospitality and entertainment in each year since it was created;

(9) how much Yorkshire Forward has spent on hospitality and entertainment in each year since it was created.

The following table shows the RDAs expenditure on hospitality and corporate entertainment since their creation to the last full financial year.

£
RDA	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
AWM	8,500	28,500	¹163.500	8,600	8,900	8,000	15,816	43,862	10,541
EEDA	²—	²—	²—	5,849	11,608	11,118	12,534	7,153	12,126
EMDA	284	17,870	6,510	38,722	48,344	48,301	48,185	20,077	14,781
LDA	³—	209	31,220	16,801	23,133	19,462	27,341	19,202	28,590
NWDA	7,144	16,750	21,556	32,908	38,834	35,639	44,975	45,209	22,485
ONE	6,659	2,849	30,853	50,644	40,360	34,600	40,421	38,324	35,048
SEEDA	24,304	34,689	47,063	36,089	50,858	50,640	35,995	42,061	29,863
SWRDA	8,937	13,045	17,723	25,362	17,065	20,552	21,531	17,785	22,600
YF	3,405	20,095	19,616	44,992	64,428	39,276	29,397	42,460	25,767
Notes: ¹ Exceptional hospitality costs in respect of the 2002 Ryder Cup. ² Before 2002-03, EEDA did not separately identify hospitality and corporate entertainment costs in accounts. To separate out this data would incur disproportionate cost. ³ LDA was set up in 2000.

Volume 491: debated on Wednesday 22 April 2009