House of Lords written question – answered at on 14 December 2010.
To ask Her Majesty's Government which countries in the European Union benefit most from European Union cohesion funds.
The following table shows the breakdown between member states of the structural funds that they receive in the 2007-13 programmes, both by overall quantum and by allocation per person.
Structural and Cohesion Fund Allocations 2007-13 | |||||
Current prices | ERDF | ESF | Cohesion Fund | Total SCEs | Allocations per-head € |
€ million | € million | € million | € million | € | |
Belgium | 1.2 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 221 | |
Czech Republic | 14.1 | 3.8 | 8.8 | 26.7 | 2615 |
Denmark | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 114 | |
Germany | 17.0 | 9.4 | 26.4 | 320 | |
Estonia | 1.9 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 2521 |
Greece | 12.3 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 20.5 | 1857 |
Spain | 24.0 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 36.0 | 853 |
France | 9.0 | 5.4 | 14.4 | 240 | |
Ireland | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 224 | |
Italy | 21.9 | 6.9 | 28.8 | 498 | |
Cyprus | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 876 |
Latvia | 2.5 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 4.6 | 1983 |
Lithuania | 3.5 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 6.8 | 1973 |
Luxembourg | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 144 | |
Hungary | 13.1 | 3.7 | 8.6 | 25.4 | 2511 |
Malta | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 2138 |
Netherlands | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 117 | |
Austria | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 181 | |
Poland | 35.0 | 10.0 | 22.0 | 67.0 | 1754 |
Portugal | 11.9 | 6.5 | 3.1 | 21.5 | 2053 |
Slovenia | 2.0 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 4.2 | 2104 |
Slovakia | 6.7 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 11.7 | 2180 |
Finland | 1.1 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 326 | |
Sweden | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 212 | |
United Kingdom | 6.1 | 4.5 | 10.6 | 178 | |
Bulgaria | 3.4 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 6.9 | 884 |
Romania | 9.5 | 3.7 | 6.5 | 19.7 | 907 |
Total EU 27 | 201.1 | 72.1 | 73.8 | 347.0 | 714 |
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