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Regional Development Agencies: Expenditure

Volume 496: debated on Wednesday 9 September 2009

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Mr. Ellwood

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding allocated by his Department to each regional development agency was spent on tourism in each of the last five years. (287907)

Mr. McFadden

The following table shows RDA expenditure on tourism in the last five years.

Expenditure on tourism includes marketing and tourism promotion, capital spending related to tourism, product development related to tourism, and research related to tourism.

Expenditure on Tourism (£ million)

RDAs

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

AWM

2

3.8

8

12.5

9.5

EEDA

0.6

0.8

1.5

1.7

1.1

EMDA

2.5

4.1

5

4.6

4.2

LDA

23.7

23.8

23.9

29.4

25.9

NWDA1

4.1

5.5

3.4

9.5

11.8

ONE 2

3.3

7.1

10.8

10.6

11.9

SEEDA

1.8

2.4

2.2

2.2

2.3

SWRDA3

9.2

7.5

6.4

5.5

4.7

YF

4

4.1

7.5

6.5

10.5

1 NWDA have not included: (a) core cost for funding Destination Management Organisations or Regional Tourist Boards and (b) specific funding to organisations in Liverpool for Capital of Culture activity.

2 ONE took over the delivery of tourism in 2004-05.

3 Figures for 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 include expenditure related to SWRDA's role as the national RDA lead for tourism policy.