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Regional Planning and Development: Thames Gateway

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 2 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how much the Homes and Communities Agency spent on the Thames Gateway project in each of the last three years; (318716)

(2) which public bodies received funding from the Thames Gateway Fund in each of the last three years; and how much was paid to each organisation in each of those years;

(3) how much was paid to (a) the South East England Development Agency and (b) the East of England Development Agency by the Thames Gateway Fund in each of the last three years;

(4) how much was paid to local authorities by the Thames Gateway Fund in each of the last three years;

(5) how much was received by the Homes and Communities Agency from the Thames Gateway Fund in each of the last three years.

The Thames Gateway programme is set out in the Thames Gateway delivery plan published in November 2007. Until 30 November 2008 the programme was administered by the Thames Gateway Executive in Communities and Local Government. From 1 December 2008, the programme was transferred to the Homes and Communities Agency, although grant in aid for the two Thames Gateway urban development corporations continues to be paid out by Communities and Local Government.

The development corporations, local authorities, regional development agencies and other public bodies that have received Thames Gateway funding in the three years 2007-08, 2008-09, and 2009-10, together with the amounts, are:

Amounts (£) paid in:

Organisation

2007-08

2008-09

2009-101

London Thames Gateway Development Corporation

44,000,000

50,000,000

35,000,000

Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation

59,000,000

30,000,000

30,000,000

Basildon district council

2,370,693

4,436,981

6,339,117

Castlepoint borough council

99,779

39,783

340,000

Dartford borough council

4,068,190

4,967,821

6,217,700

Gravesham borough council

1,614,038

1,434,000

1,434,000

Kent county council

6,648,872

5,052,292

8,920,915

London borough of Barking and Dagenham

0

0

150,000

London borough of Bexley

454,235

341,490

885,000

London borough of Greenwich

2,205,671

2,228,569

6,112,520

London borough of Lewisham

2,057,805

471,599

3,350,805

Medway council

100,000

156,561

1,560,000

Southend on Sea borough council

455,954

522,016

3,000,000

Swale borough council

0

0

3,000,000

East of England Development Agency (EEDA)

0

0

0

South East England Development Agency (SEEDA)

5,553,001

358,354

4,025,000

Invest Thames Gateway

246,165

544,471

962,000

Office of Government Commerce

236,455

0

0

Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

335,644

118,822

0

Land Restoration Trust

1,170,554

5,000

0

Forestry Commission

1,081,365

798,464

0

Environment Agency

853,500

178,500

580,000

1 Amounts for 2009/10 are an estimate based on actual expenditure to date and forecast to the end of the financial year.