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78383

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date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of funds allocated in each region under the European Regional Development Fund have been returned as a result of slippage and underperformance in each region; and on what dates each such withdrawal took place.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	206266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>In 2013, £4.1 million was withdrawn from European Regional Development Fund allocations, which represents a tiny proportion of the total £2.74 billion budget. All spending of taxpayers’ money must ensure value for money and money should not be spent on poor quality projects. In addition, all spending must comply with complex EU rules, or else risk “financial corrections” down the line.</p><p> </p><p>The European Regional Development Fund is a circular programme. UK taxpayers’ money is given to the European Union budget. Under the Fund, a local project receives a contract, spends money and then claims from DCLG. DCLG then claims funds back from the European Commission. The whole process goes through a complex auditing process involving DCLG auditors and then European Union auditors. After a period of time, the majority of unspent funding is returned to the UK Government by the European Commission. We continue to have concerns over the bureaucratic and time consuming nature of the related processes involved in the programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 22/10/2014 16:19:41 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

78384

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which bids in each region have been (a) accepted and (b) rejected under the European Regional Development Fund since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	206274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>Since 2007, the 2007-13 round of the European Regional Development Fund has seen 1,535 projects across England approved, with £2.7 billion of funds committed.</p><p>Of these, 860 bids were approved since May 2010; a further 395 were either withdrawn by applicants or rejected for not meeting the (complex) eligibility criteria established at the start of the programme under the last Administration. A list of projects is given in the attached table.</p><p>All spending of taxpayers’ money must ensure value for money: and money should not be spent on poor quality projects just for the sake of it. Spending must also comply with complex and bureaucratic EU rules, or else risk “financial corrections” down the line. We continue to have concerns over the bureaucratic and time consuming nature of the processes involved in the programme, as a consequence of rules imposed by the European Commission.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 23/10/2014 16:00:27 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins attachment 1 file name 206274 Umunna - Table.xlsx title ERDF Projects
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

78389

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	206143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We do not specifically hold information on costs of replies to hon. Members, however we can estimate a cost based on use of paper, envelopes, postage and ink cartridges on annual enquiries ranging between 10,000 – 12,000, of which 95% are postal replies. The cost ranges between £6,500 and £7,500 depending on reply volume per annum.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Most correspondence from hon. Members continues to be received as letters and is replied to in the same format. Ministers do, however, reply by email when they consider it appropriate to do so.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 21/08/2014 12:09:32 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby