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Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Answer

Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Don Valley constituency, the effects on Doncaster of his Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997. [153517] Ms Beverley Hughes: The principal kinds of funding that this Department has provided to Doncaster local authority in the years 1997-98 to 2001-02 are shown in the table. These include grants and borrowing approvals for revenue and capital expenditure. It is not possible to determine how much of this money has been spent on Don Valley constituency. It is for the local authority to decide where within its boundary these resources are applied. £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Nature of funding 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02{1} Revenue Support Grant 117.119 124.896 131.060 129.066 137.215 Income from National 63.941 66.425 71.946 80.861 78.797 Non-Domestic Rates Housing Investment {2}4.383 4.257 5.054 {3}12.524 {4}16.590 Programme Capital Receipts Initiative 1.015 3.424 3.241 -- -- New Deal for Communities -- -- -- -- {5}50.0 Funding Neighbourhood Renewal -- -- -- -- {6}19.8 Funding (award date) Transport Supplementary 1.216 0.383 0.785 Nil {7}11.350 Grant Transport Annual Capital 1.216 0.383 0.785 9.750 {7}9.120 Guideline Transport Block 0.300 0.270 1.280 9.934 {7}4.320 Supplementary Credit Approval _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Where known Housing notes: {2} 1997-98 HIP allocation inherited from previous Government's spending plans. Present Government introduced CRI from 1997-98. {3} Single Housing Pot introduced from 2000-01 resulting in CRI being merged with HIP. {4} Resource accounting has resulted in a change to the way capital resources are allocated for 2001-02, with the introduction of a new Major Repairs Allowance (MRA) to cover the cost of maintaining local authority housing in a sound condition. Doncaster's MRA allocation for 2001-02 is £11.976 million and, for comparison purposes, is included in the 2001-02 HIP allocation. {5} Over 10 years {6} Over three years Doncaster's overall capital allocation of £16.590 million, represents an increase of 261.60 per cent. on the inherited 1997-98 HIP allocation. Housing Revenue Account Subsidy £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Doncaster M&M allowance per house 1997-98 748.06 1998-99 753.97 1999-2000 776.37 2000-01 814.59 2001-02 820.29 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: In addition, Doncaster benefits from HRA subsidy. Figures are given as allowance per dwelling rather than in global figures. Transport: {7} This figure includes £9 million Transport Supplementary Grant held back until required. In addition, the following funds have been allocated to the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority, some of which have been/will be spent in the Doncaster metropolitan borough council area. £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Nature of funding 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 Transport Block 5.500 6.125 8.500 11.923 22.500 Supplementary Credit Approval Rural Bus Challenge Grant 0 0 0.028 1.383 0.674 Rural Bus Subsidy Grant 0 0.339 0.339 0.339 0.433 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. SRB No awards have been made to Doncaster since May 1997. However the Dearne Valley was awarded £1.6 million in 1998 to help the long-term unemployed back to work and to improve educational attainment. Doncaster also stands to benefit from the two successful South Yorkshire Coalfield bids (£16.5 million in 1999 and £80 million in 2000) and the £0.6 million bid in 2000 by the South Yorkshire Black Forum to support ethnic communities. European Funding Doncaster has had 2 Objective 2 Action Plans (covering Business Support and Community Development). Together they have had allocations of £6.3 million ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and £5.4 million ESF (European Social Fund). There were also Objective 2 offers for Tourism projects (including the Earth Centre) of £4.5 million and for the development of major industrial sites (Redhouse/Brodsworth) of some £2 million. South Yorkshire has been designated an Objective 1 area, of which Doncaster and Don Valley are a part, and stands to benefit from over £700 million European Funds over the next seven years.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

365 c16-7W; 153517

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Government departments Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions Doncaster

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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