The United Kingdom receives an allocation for the Structural Funds (the European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund) but not the Cohesion Fund.<\/p>
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A large number of United Kingdom organisations received European Funding under Structural Funds programmes in the last year. As these are too numerous to set down here, I have provided below details of websites which contain lists of beneficiary organisations.<\/p>
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The links to the Structural Funds programmes are:<\/p>
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ERDF Programmes in England: https://www.gov.uk/erdf-programmes-progress-and-achievements<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p> ESF England and Gibraltar: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/european-social-fund-2007-to-2013<\/a><\/p> <\/p> Devolved Administrations (ERDF & ESF)<\/p> <\/p> Northern Ireland: http://www.dfpni.gov.uk/index/finance/european-funding.htm<\/a><\/p> <\/p> Scotland: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/support/17404/StructuralFunds2007-2013<\/a><\/p> <\/p> Wales: http://wefo.wales.gov.uk/programmes/progress/searchprojects/?lang=en<\/a><\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> In terms of other sources of EU funding that BIS is responsible for, this includes the Framework Programme 7 for Research & Innovation with numerous participants from Higher Education, Research Organisations, Private Sector and Public bodies. Project information is not set out on the Commission website in such a way as to make it easy to identify UK recipients of EU funding in a calendar year.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Another source of EU funding that BIS was responsible for was the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP) under the Competitiveness of Innovation and Enterprises (CIP). The latest beneficiaries report is the 2012 version. The following link will provide more information about the recipients of the programme, Beneficiaries Report October 2012 Final Version<\/a> \u2013 http://ec.europa.eu/cip/files/cip/docs/beneficiaries-report-october-2012.en.pdf<\/a><\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/101695/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Government has, to date, committed £780m of central funding to support improvements to broadband services for 95% of UK premises. The funding was allocated to local bodies who are responsible for setting priorities and delivering local broadband projects. Broadband Delivery UK supported local delivery teams by providing indicative broadband coverage data from its broadband model. The data model does not identify coastal areas separately from other areas, however information about broadband provision and speeds is publically available from Ofcom at http://maps.ofcom.org.uk/broadband/<\/a><\/p> <\/p> <\/p>
The Fund is open to public, private and voluntary sector applicants and supports a wide range of projects to help build stronger, more diverse coastal communities. They include schemes to improve infrastructure, regenerate seaside town centres and heritage and leisure facilities, provide skills, training and advice, and create workspace for new businesses and social enterprises.<\/p>
To date, the Fund has provided £65 million in grants to 117 projects across UK, levering in over £103 million of other funding and delivering over 8,900 jobs, nearly 4,000 training places and apprenticeships over 400 new business start-ups.<\/p>
Coastal Communities are also benefitting from the changes we\u2019re making to local areas to take control and act in the best interests of their local community through a wide range of powers, freedoms and flexibilities to help drive growth and jobs. Nineteen of the 39 joint local authority/ private sector led Local Enterprise Partnerships cover coastal areas. As part of the Growth Deals announced in July we have committed over £500 million to projects put forward by the coastal Local Enterprise Partnerships.<\/p>
Eight out of the 24 Enterprise Zones the Government has created in Local Enterprise Partnerships include coastal locations. These coastal Enterprise Zones have delivered nearly 5,000 jobs to date and secured over £200 million of private investment.<\/p>
We are also on course to invest more than £3.2 billion in flood and coastal erosion risk management works in England from April 2010 to March 2015. This funding will improve forecasting and early warning systems, maintain flood defences and improve flood protection for 165,000 households.<\/p>
In July, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Penny Mordaunt) was appointed as Minister for Coastal Communities to help coastal places realise their potential and build a sustainable future for themselves.<\/p>