Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture and Rural Development – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 3:30 pm on 24 June 2002.
Ms Brid Rodgers
Social Democratic and Labour Party
3:30,
24 June 2002
In their last year of funding, January to December 2001, the LEADER II programme created approximately 145 full-time job equivalents, and the rural development programme, including LEADER II, created approximately 256 full-time job equivalents. The total budget for the LEADER II programme for 1994 to 1999 was approximately £13 million. The total budget for the rural development programme for 1994 to 1999, including LEADER II, was £46·5 million. Although applications to both programmes closed in December 1999, spend was allowed until December 2001.
