Housing: Conferences
Business, Innovation and Skills
Grant Shapps (Shadow Minister (Housing), Communities and Local Government; Welwyn Hatfield, Conservative)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much has been spent by the (a) South East, (b) West Midlands and (c) North West Development Agency on accreditation for the MIPIM International Property conference in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008, (iii) 2009 and (iv) 2010 to date.
Rosie Winterton (Minister of State (Yorkshire and the Humber), Department for Communities and Local Government; Doncaster Central, Labour)
The RDAs attend the MIPIM International Property conference to attract inward investment to the regions and to showcase land that is available for development in the regions. The following table shows the amounts spent by AWM, NWDA and SEEDA on accreditation:
| Accreditation costs (individual registration costs) (£) | ||||
| RDA | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
| AWM | 2,575 | 2,488 | 3,980 | 3,016 |
| NWDA | (1)1,130 | 1,015 | None | None |
| SEEDA | 2,500 | 1,491 | 4,906 | 6,556 |
| (1) Approx. Expected costs-invoice not received as yet. | ||||