Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 23 April 2008.
Eric Pickles
Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) of 20 March 2008, Official Report, column 1378W, on regional planning and development: fines, what the monetary value was of the financial correction levied.
John Healey
Minister of State (Department of Communities and Local Government) (Local Government)
The financial correction levied by the European Commission in respect of the Objective 2 and Urban II ERDF programmes in the North West of England was €24,790,591. I wrote to the chair of the CLG Select Committee on
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