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Written question asked by Justine Greening (Conservative) on Friday, 20 February 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 25 February 2009. It was answered by Tony McNulty (Labour) on Thursday, 30 April 2009 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Disadvantaged: Finance

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much of the deprived areas funds (a) allocated by his Department in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08 and (b) carried forward to 2008-09 have been spent, broken down by district; and if he will make a statement.
Answer

In January 2007, £19.3 million Deprived Areas Fund was allocated to Jobcentre Plus Districts of which £0.1 million was spent.In 2007-08, £27 million Deprived Areas Fund was allocated to Jobcentre Plus Districts, of which they spent £16.5 million. For 2008-09, £1 million was allocated to Jobcentre Plus to cover the estimated costs of residual outcomes.The available information on expenditure by Jobcentre Plus Districts is in the table.City Strategy Pathfinders were paid a grant of £42.5 million in 2007-08: an original allocation of £32.1 million plus authority to spend an additional £10.4 million. The Department does not hold a breakdown of expenditure by City Strategy Pathfinders at Jobcentre Plus District level.

Deprived Areas Fund expenditure
£
Jobcentre Plus Districts
2006-07 2007-08
Ayrshire, Dum, Galloway and Tayside — 1,121,646
Bedford and Herts — 308,013
Berks, Bucks and Oxford — 26,400
Birmingham and Solihull — 20,996
Cambridge and Suffolk — 17,266
Central London — 247,647
Cheshire and Warrington 4,000 195,320
City and East London — 124,109
Coventry and Warwick — 411
Cumbria and Lancashire 1,536 715,002
Derbyshire — 366,347
Devon and Cornwall — 167,604
Dorset and Somerset — 99,789
Edinburgh, Lothian and Borders 7,786 49,362
Essex — 121,134
Forth Valley Fife and Tayside 5,000 396,019
Glasgow 3,936 57,029
Gloucestershire Wiltshire and Swindon — 112,948
Greater Manchester Central — 2,419
Greater Manchester East and West 37,362 47,251
Merseyside — 47,858
Hampshire — 102,092
Highlands, Isle Clyde Coast and Gram 14,527 644,329
Kent — 138,339
Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth — 901,258
Lanarkshire and Dumbarton — 728,683
Lancashire — 0
Leicester and Northampton — 71,049
Lincoln and Rutland — 199,177
Liverpool and Wirral — 0
Norfolk — 229,886
North and East Yorks and the Humber — 873,793
North and Mid Wales — 235,374
North and North East London — 622,438
Northumbria — 45,667
Nottinghamshire — 75,894
South East Wales — 257,278
South London — 789,355
South Tyne and Wear Valley — 259,641
South Wales Valleys 175 1,113,393
South West Wales — 386,246
South Yorkshire — 0
Staffordshire — 193,681
Surrey and Sussex — 304,740
Tees Valley — 2,087,794
The Black Country — 0
The Marches — 380
West London 380 105,149
West of England — 341,786
West Yorkshire 22,523 1,468,833
Not identified to specific District — 117,004
Total 97,225 16,537,829
Total (rounded) (£ million) 0.1 16.5

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
491 c1488-9W;491 c1488-90W; 258770
Session
2008-09
Related items
Written Questions: Government Responses
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Disadvantaged Finance Jobcentre Plus
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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