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Regional Development Agencies: Finance

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what funding his Department has provided to each of the regional development agencies in each of the last three years; and for what purposes. (308488)

The Department made the following payments to regional development agencies during the last three financial years:

£

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

One Northeast

5,777

London Development Agency

31,787

18,093

South West Development Agency

29,078

Total payments

31,787

23,870

29,078

The payment made in 2008-09 was a contribution towards the Regional Development Agency's Carbon Assessment scheme. Due to a change in the Department's accounting system in 2008 it is not possible to identify the purpose of the payments made in 2006-07 and 2007-08 other than at disproportionate cost.