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Dept of Trade and Industry

Answer

Mr. MacShane: To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful attempts have been made by United Kingdom organisations in the last four years to obtain funds from the EU's (i) Retex, (ii) small and medium enterprises initiative, (iii) Rechar II and (iv) Resider II schemes: and what funds have been allocated to the United Kingdom under each of these schemes. [12343] Mr. Greg Knight: The European Commission's notices for the Community initiatives to which the hon. Member refers were published on 1 July 1994. The notices stated that member states' programmes should be sent to the Commission within four months. Because of the late adoption by the Commission of many of the programmes under these initiatives in the UK and throughout the EU, the first offers of grants were not made until the second half of 1995. The latest figures for project applications from UK local authorities and other bodies for these four initiatives are: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Community initiative 1994-99 Number of applications Number of applications Number of applications Number of applications received since 1994 approved rejected still under consideration Retex II 201 86 57 58 SME 437 63 67 307 Rechar II 1,509 575 557 377 Resider II 235 89 103 43 Total 2,382 813 784 785 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The allocations to the UK for each of the four Initiatives are: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ million (i) Retex II 26.71 (ii) SME 49.14 (iii) Rechar II 119.16 (iv) Resider II 33.18 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

12343; 289 c324W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

EU grants and loans Small businesses RECHAR Retex Resider programme

Contains statistics

Yes