Written question asked by Baroness Warsi (Conservative), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Lord Young of Norwood Green (Labour) on Monday, 22 February 2010.

Community Cohesion

Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding has been allocated to each regional development agency to promote community cohesion in 2010–11; and what portion of that funding has been already allocated.

Answer: Since April 2002, regional development agencies (RDA) have been financed through a single programme budget (the "single pot"). Money from the six contributing departments (BIS, CLG, DEFRA, DCMS and UKTI) is pooled into one single budget and allocated to the RDAs. While RDAs take account of community cohesion issues, RDAs do not record expenditure according to community cohesion as a category of corporate spending. Furthermore, to separate out this data would incur disproportionate cost.

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