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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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government which United Kingdom organisations have received European Union funding in the last year from structural, cohesion or other funds.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/92756/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Electoral Commission has a statutory role in registering party descriptions, and already has the power to not register certain types of descriptions, including those which are either offensive or misleading to the voter. These duties are set out in legislation and it is important that the Electoral Commission fulfils these efficiently and effectively. Following an incident earlier in the year when the Electoral Commission mistakenly registered an extremely offensive party description, an independent review made some recommendations about future practice which the Electoral Commission accepted.<\/p> <\/p> The Government has no plans to review the powers and governance of the Electoral Commission. The 11th report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, Review of the Electoral Commission, recommended that the role of the Electoral Commission should be streamlined and re-focused into two core roles as a regulator of (a) political party funding and (b) of electoral administration. This recommendation was accepted by Government and the Electoral Commission.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 8 July (HL745) and 28 July (HL1102), and in the light of representations made about the names and descriptions of political parties appearing on ballot papers and allegations of electoral malpractice, whether they will review the powers and governance of the Electoral Commission.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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Financial Year<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Claim Value<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2011-12<\/p><\/td> £191,556.33<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012-13<\/p><\/td> £134,999.82<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2013-14<\/p><\/td> £517,980.45<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/strong><\/p> <\/p> The increase in claim value in 2013/14 compared to previous years is largely due to one case which started in 2002, for which a final bill was submitted in January 2014. This case, known as Austin and Saxby, was a test case on behalf of a much larger group of individuals relating to protests on May Day 2002. They claimed that they had been unlawfully subjected to the procedure known as kettling by the Metropolitan Police. The case went to the House of Lords (Supreme Court) where they lost and the law was eventually clarified.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Faulks on 24 June (WA 144), what was the overall cost for the last three years of legal aid claims in respect of false imprisonment; and into which categories they record such costs as falling.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/61511/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " 1 April 2008 we have reported on compensation cases and disclosed information on individual cases where the costs exceeded £250,000. We do not report the individual details on cases below this threshold, or prior to this date.<\/p> <\/p> Information relating to compensation, ex-gratia and adverse legal costs payments is available and can be found within the Losses and Special Payments disclosure in the UKBA Annual Report and Accounts. These are available on the Home Office Website via the attached link.<\/p> <\/p> |