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Dept of Trade and Industry

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Mr. Harvey: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list each business link by region, indicating the amount of DTI funding to each for the period 1995-96. [15098] Mr. Page: Table 1 shows, by region, the pump priming grant for each business link area. A list of business link services expenditure by business link area could only be provided at disproportionate cost since the information on services grant for each business link is not held centrally and the total services grant for each business link would have to be calculated from local, generally, paper-based, records of expenditure from each of the services budgets. However, data on expenditure by region are held electronically and table 2 shows expenditure on business support services funded by DTI through training and enterprise councils and business links. These data include expenditure of non-business link services in those areas where the business link had not yet opened in 1995-96. Table 1: Pump-priming grants for Business Links 1995-96 (£000s) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Area Heart of England 211.1 Thames Valley 663.0 Isle of Wight 284.3 Milton Keynes 720.9 Hampshire{1} 0.0 Kent 901.1 Surrey 666.0 Sussex 603.3 South East 4,049.6 BL London 2,966.5 North London 309.5 South London 206.9 West London 382.9 Central London 429.7 London East 329.0 North West London 124.4 South West London 747.2 City/Inner London 652.3 London 6,148.5 Bedfordshire 614.9 Central and S. Cambridgeshire 357.5 Essex 538.7 Greater Peterborough 579.6 Hertfordshire 819.9 Norfolk 492.1 Suffolk 396.6 Eastern 3,799.3 West (Avon) 1,363.0 Devon and Cornwall 1,948.0 Dorset 287.1 Gloucestershire 508.0 Wiltshire 382.3 Somerset 779.3 South West 5,267.7 Birmingham 594.3 Solihull 397.0 Wyre Forest 276.8 Redditch 314.4 Coventry and Warwickshire 824.0 Dudley 500.4 Hereford and Worcester 194.5 Sandwell 603.4 Shropshire 185.7 Staffordshire 305.3 Walsall 216.5 Wolverhampton 193.2 West Midlands 4,605.5 Greater Nottingham 573.1 Leicestershire 391.4 Lincolnshire 289.3 North Derbyshire 466.1 North Nottinghamshire 256.6 Northamptonshire 207.1 Southern Derbyshire 174.1 East Midlands 2,357.7 Barnsley 135.2 Doncaster 196.6 Bradford 100.0 Calderdale/Kirklees 578.9 Humberside 335.5 Leeds 605.1 North Yorkshire{1} 0.0 Rotherham 216.9 Sheffield 368.2 Wakefield 289.7 Yorkshire and the Humber 2,826.1 Bolton/Bury{1} 0.0 Cumbria 642.1 East Lancashire{1} 0.0 Halton 146.8 High Peak{1} 0.0 Manchester 350.4 Mid Cheshire{1} 0.0 OIdham 257.6 Rochdale 452.1 South and East Cheshire 56.1 Stockport 77.4 Warrington{1} 0.0 West Lancashire{1} 0.0 Wigan 86.5 North west 2,069.0 Wirral and Chester{1} 0.0 Merseyside 1,143.4 St. Helens 233.6 Merseyside 1,377 Durham 535.1 Northumberland 382.9 Teesside 533.8 Tyneside 336.5 Wearside 216.6 North east 2,004.9 BL Support 5,030.8 National total 39,536.1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Pump-priming expenditure began after 1995-96. Table 2: Expenditure on business support services funded by DTI through TECs and Business Links 1995-96 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Region £ million South East 6.41 London 5.59 Eastern 5.02 South West 4.83 West Midlands 6.06 East Midlands 4.32 Yorkshire and The Humber 2.89 North West 4.60 Merseyside 1.37 North East 2.54 Total 43.63 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

15098; 290 c220-2W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Central government Grants Economic regions Business links

Contains statistics

Yes