EU Structural Funds

Trade and Industry written question – answered at on 27 April 2006.

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Photo of Eric Pickles Eric Pickles Shadow Minister (Communities and Local Government), Deputy Chair, Conservative Party

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry which (a) areas and (b) regions are due to receive less EU structural funds over the next financial perspective than under their current allocation; and what the difference in the sums allocated is in each case.

Photo of Alun Michael Alun Michael Minister of State (State (Industry and the Regions)), Department of Trade and Industry

On 20 December 2005 I made a written statement to the House on the outcome of the European Council regarding reform of the EU structural and cohesion funds. My statement set out the implications of the budgetary agreement for the UK for the 2007–13 financial perspective. The progress made was very good news for the UK and a positive achievement of the UK presidency.

The position remains as I set out in my statement. It is not possible at this stage to provide precise figures for the amounts to be received by individual regions post-2006. We will only know this once the European Commission has produced official structural funds allocations for the UK and its regions.

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