Disadvantaged: Finance Justine Greening To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much of the deprived areas funds (a) allocated by his Department in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08 and (b) carried forward to 2008-09 have been spent, broken down by district; and if he will make a statement. Mr. McNulty In January 2007, £19.3 million Deprived Areas Fund was allocated to Jobcentre Plus Districts of which £0.1 million was spent. In 2007-08, £27 million Deprived Areas Fund was allocated to Jobcentre Plus Districts, of which they spent £16.5 million. For 2008-09, £1 million was allocated to Jobcentre Plus to cover the estimated costs of residual outcomes. The available information on expenditure by Jobcentre Plus Districts is in the table. City Strategy Pathfinders were paid a grant of £42.5 million in 2007-08: an original allocation of £32.1 million plus authority to spend an additional £10.4 million. The Department does not hold a breakdown of expenditure by City Strategy Pathfinders at Jobcentre Plus District level. --------------------------------------- |£ | --------------------------------------- | |Jobcentre Plus Districts| --------------------------------------- | |2006-07|2007-08| --------------------------------------- |Ayrshire, Dum, Galloway and Tayside |—|1,121,646| --------------------------------------- |Bedford and Herts |—|308,013| --------------------------------------- |Berks, Bucks and Oxford |—|26,400| --------------------------------------- |Birmingham and Solihull |—|20,996| --------------------------------------- |Cambridge and Suffolk |—|17,266| --------------------------------------- |Central London |—|247,647| --------------------------------------- |Cheshire and Warrington |4,000|195,320| --------------------------------------- |City and East London |—|124,109| --------------------------------------- |Coventry and Warwick |—|411| --------------------------------------- |Cumbria and Lancashire |1,536|715,002| --------------------------------------- |Derbyshire |—|366,347| --------------------------------------- |Devon and Cornwall |—|167,604| --------------------------------------- |Dorset and Somerset |—|99,789| --------------------------------------- |Edinburgh, Lothian and Borders |7,786|49,362| --------------------------------------- |Essex |—|121,134| --------------------------------------- |Forth Valley Fife and Tayside |5,000|396,019| --------------------------------------- |Glasgow |3,936|57,029| --------------------------------------- |Gloucestershire Wiltshire and Swindon|—|112,948| --------------------------------------- |Greater Manchester Central |—|2,419| --------------------------------------- |Greater Manchester East and West |37,362|47,251| --------------------------------------- |Merseyside |—|47,858| --------------------------------------- |Hampshire |—|102,092| --------------------------------------- |Highlands, Isle Clyde Coast and Gram |14,527|644,329| --------------------------------------- |Kent |—|138,339| --------------------------------------- |Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth |—|901,258| --------------------------------------- |Lanarkshire and Dumbarton |—|728,683| --------------------------------------- |Lancashire |—|0| --------------------------------------- |Leicester and Northampton |—|71,049| --------------------------------------- |Lincoln and Rutland |—|199,177| --------------------------------------- |Liverpool and Wirral |—|0| --------------------------------------- |Norfolk |—|229,886| --------------------------------------- |North and East Yorks and the Humber |—|873,793| --------------------------------------- |North and Mid Wales |—|235,374| --------------------------------------- |North and North East London |—|622,438| --------------------------------------- |Northumbria |—|45,667| --------------------------------------- |Nottinghamshire |—|75,894| --------------------------------------- |South East Wales |—|257,278| --------------------------------------- |South London |—|789,355| --------------------------------------- |South Tyne and Wear Valley |—|259,641| --------------------------------------- |South Wales Valleys |175|1,113,393| --------------------------------------- |South West Wales |—|386,246| --------------------------------------- |South Yorkshire |—|0| --------------------------------------- |Staffordshire |—|193,681| --------------------------------------- |Surrey and Sussex |—|304,740| --------------------------------------- |Tees Valley |—|2,087,794| --------------------------------------- |The Black Country |—|0| --------------------------------------- |The Marches |—|380| --------------------------------------- |West London |380|105,149| --------------------------------------- |West of England |—|341,786| --------------------------------------- |West Yorkshire |22,523|1,468,833| --------------------------------------- |Not identified to specific District |—|117,004| --------------------------------------- |Total |97,225|16,537,829| --------------------------------------- | ||| --------------------------------------- |Total (rounded) (£ million) |0.1|16.5| ---------------------------------------