EU Grants and Loans
Business, Innovation and Skills
Nigel Dodds (Belfast North, DUP)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate has been made of the total amount of funding made available to each UK region through the (a) European social fund and (b) EU Competitiveness and Employment programme in each of the last five years.
Mark Prisk (Minister of State (Business and Enterprise), Business, Innovation and Skills; Hertford and Stortford, Conservative)
EU structural and cohesion funds (SCFs) are made available in seven-year funding periods. The current funding period runs from 2007-13. The allocations to the UK for the period 2007-13 are set out as follows. The figures include the European social fund (ESF); the European regional development fund (ERDF) Regional Competitiveness and Employment (RCE) programme allocation; and the ERDF Convergence programme allocation, for a complete picture.
| Country | Operational programme | Fund | Allocation (€ million) |
| England | North West—RCE | ERDF | 755.8 |
| England | Yorkshire and Humber—RCE | ERDF | 533.6 |
| England | North East—RCE | ERDF | 375.7 |
| England | East Midlands—RCE | ERDF | 268.5 |
| England | West Midlands—RCE | ERDF | 399.9 |
| England | East of England—RCE | ERDF | 111.0 |
| England | London—RCE | ERDF | 181.9 |
| England | South East—RCE | ERDF | 23.7 |
| England | South West—RCE | ERDF | 124.7 |
| England | Cornwall and Isles of Scilly—Convergence | ERDF | 458.1 |
| Total England | 3,282.9 | ||
| Wales | West Wales and Valleys—Convergence | ERDF | 1,250.4 |
| Wales | Rest of Wales—RCE | ERDF | 72.4 |
| Total Wales | 1,322.8 | ||
| Scotland | Highlands and Islands—RCE | ERDF | 121.8 |
| Scotland | Lowlands and Uplands—RCE | ERDF | 376.0 |
| Total Scotland | 497.8 | ||
| Northern Ireland | RCE | ERDF | 306.8 |
| Gibraltar | RCE | ERDF | 5.8 |
| Total UK | RCE and Convergence | ERDF | 5,416.1 |
| England and Gibraltar | Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | ESF | 196.4 |
| England and Gibraltar | Rest of England and Gibraltar | ESF | 2,893.5 |
| Total England and Gibraltar | 3,089.9 | ||
| Wales | West Wales and Valleys | ESF | 833.6 |
| Wales | Rest of Wales | ESF | 63.6 |
| Total Wales | 897.2 | ||
| Scotland | Highlands and Islands | ESF | 52.2 |
| Scotland | Lowlands and Uplands | ESF | 269.9 |
| Total Scotland | 322.1 | ||
| Northern Ireland | ESF | 165.8 | |
| Total UK | ESF | 4,475.0 | |
| Total UK | SCFs Allocation | ERDF and ESF | (1)9,891 |
| (1) Figure takes account of rounding up of figures above. | |||
This table does not include an additional €722 million ERDF funding allocated to transnational programmes (Interreg and PEACE) rather than to specific regionally-based UK-only programmes.