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530668

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	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 Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment the Government has made on the potential effect of the outcome of the EU referendum on EU development funding for the regions of England.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	41534
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p>As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made clear, while the UK remains a member of the EU, current EU funding arrangements continue unchanged. It will be for the Government under the new Prime Minister to begin the negotiation to leave, and set out arrangements for those currently in receipt of EU funds.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 07/07/2016 14:46:18 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

484381

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	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 Business, Innovation and Skills, how much (a) European Regional Development and (b) European Structural funding (i) Scotland, (ii) Wales, (iii) Northern Ireland and (iv) each region of England will receive in each year between 2014 and 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
	tabling member printed	Nick Herbert
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	32053
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>The amount allocated by year to each operational programme for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and European Social Fund (ESF) in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for the 2014-2020 period is set out in table 1.6 of the United Kingdom’s Partnership Agreement with the European Commission which can be found on GOV.UK at ‘European Structural and Investment Funds: UK Partnership Agreement’ and is attached.</p><p>Within England, notional allocations for ERDF and ESF were made on the basis of Local Enterprise Partnership areas. The total allocations to each Local Enterprise Partnership area for the 2014-2020 period can be found on the GOV.UK website at ‘EU Structural Funds: UK allocations 2014 to 2020’ and is attached.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name LEP-allocations-32053.pdf title Local Enterprise Partnership allocation figures 2 file name Information-from-table-1-6-32053.pdf title ERDF & ESF allocation figures question first answered 30/03/2016 09:59:21 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1479 label Biography information for Lord Herbert of South Downs

506249

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	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 Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of (a) European Regional Development and (b) European Structural funding which will be received by the (i) East Midlands, (ii) East of England, (iii) London, (iv) North East, (v) North West, (vi) South East, (vii) South West, (viii) West Midlands and (ix) Yorkshire and Humber in each year between 2014 and 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
	tabling member printed	Nick Herbert
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	33071
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>Within England, notional allocations for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and European Social Fund (ESF) for the 2014-2020 programming period were made on the basis of Local Enterprise Partnership areas. Transposing these allocations to regional boundaries, the total estimated amount of ERDF and ESF for the 2014-2020 programming period for each region in England is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>€598m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>€387m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>€762m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>€739m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>€1132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>€286m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>€1495m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>€909m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and Humber</p></td><td><p>€794m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total for England</p></td><td><p>€6937m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It should be noted that some Local Enterprise Partnership areas cross the boundaries of regions and therefore the actual spend pattern may not wholly reflect the above notional allocations. Furthermore, Local Enterprise Partnerships and other local partners were asked to suggest the appropriate split between ESF and ERDF in strategies for their area and it is not possible to transpose this accurately to each region.</p><p>The allocations for each year at England level are fixed in the respective programmes for ESF and ERDF.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 18/04/2016 16:35:07 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1479 label Biography information for Lord Herbert of South Downs

515193

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	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 Business, Innovation and Skills, how much EU (a) 7th Framework Programme and (b) Horizon 2020 funding has been provided to (i) universities, (ii) other research institutions and (iii) small businesses in the UK in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	35370
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>The figures requested are set out below. These reflect the full value of grant agreements signed in each calendar year, not the money received in that year.</p><p>Higher and Secondary Education Organisations (HES) agreed funding (€):</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FP7</p></td><td><p>832,679,583</p></td><td><p>923,451,655</p></td><td><p>1,017,766,046</p></td><td><p>390,441,742</p></td><td><p>22,102,754</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Horizon 2020</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>178,789,606</p></td><td><p>910,814,167</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Non-profit Research organisations (REC) agreed funding (€):</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FP7</p></td><td><p>109,612,016</p></td><td><p>78,523,761</p></td><td><p>107,290,576</p></td><td><p>38,249,216</p></td><td><p>1,469,761</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Horizon 2020</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>48,957,471</p></td><td><p>140,977,361</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME) agreed funding (€):</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FP7</p></td><td><p>127,491,096</p></td><td><p>180,348,365</p></td><td><p>229,312,029</p></td><td><p>39,929,247</p></td><td><p>241,625</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Horizon 2020</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>49,215,444</p></td><td><p>219,693,279</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Please note that the SME figures may include some HES or REC organisations.</p><p>The variation in the figures across the years in part reflects the fact that calls are competitively bid for and vary considerably in the amount of funding available; and in part the fact that the FP7 budget was back-loaded, with increasing amounts of money available to award as grants in the final two years of the programme (2012-2013). In contrast, relatively few grants were awarded in the first year of Horizon 2020 (2014), which thereafter is due to run with annual budgets larger than those available to FP7.</p><p>Overall, the UK was the second biggest recipient of EU research funding under FP7, and remains so under Horizon 2020.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 27/04/2016 15:02:29 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

77028

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Grants and Loans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, under what circumstances the use of European Investment Bank loans by the Northern Ireland Executive would lead to a reduction in the block grant from his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	205168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2014 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Executive’s spending is funded from a variety of sources, including the ‘block grant’ allocation from the UK Government, borrowing, and locally raised revenue. The Northern Ireland Executive can currently borrow up to £200m per year, up to a total of £3bn, from the UK’s National Loans Fund (NLF), through the Reinvestment and Reform Initiative (RRI).</p><p> </p><p>Any loans from the European Investment Bank which were additional to the NLF borrowing would, like the existing facility, count towards the UK’s overall Public Sector Net Cash Requirement (PSNCR) and would have the effect of increasing the overall level of public spending. For this reason, any Northern Ireland Executive borrowing needs to be within the £200m per year limits which are provided for within the devolved administration’s total budgets each year. Any increases in borrowing beyond the agreed limits must be offset by reductions in other spending to avoid adding to the overall limits on public spending set out by the Government. Such reductions could be enforced by cuts to the ‘block grant’ portion of NI budgets if the Northern Ireland Executive did not make other offsetting savings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is important to recognise that bodies other than the Northern Ireland Executive can bid for EIB loans in Northern Ireland. In January 2014, the University of Ulster secured a £150m loan to help build its new Belfast campus, and the Northern Ireland Finance Minister has been encouraging councils within the new local authority structures in Northern Ireland to consider the EIB as a source of finance for infrastructure investment.</p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 28/07/2014 09:27:22 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

222896

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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 under the 2007-13 European Regional Development Fund which were committed after May 2010 have not yet been drawn down.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	225021
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The full £2.7 billion European Regional Development Fund allocation for 2007-13 has been committed, and is on track and on course for where we would expect to be at this stage in the programme.</p><p> </p><p>The programme is worth a total of £2,749,090,730 excluding match funding. Since 1 May 2010, the current programme has contracted projects worth a total value of £1,365,042,943.</p><p> </p><p>Of that, £816,874,958 has been paid out from the European Regional Development Fund and £548,167,985 remains to be claimed by grant recipients. All activity, outputs and spend must be completed by September 2015, and recipients then have until the end of December 2015 to submit their claims for expenditure incurred.</p><p> </p><p>As outlined to the hon. Member in the answer to him of 26 November 2014, Question 206317, the 2000-06 programme under the last Labour Government was poorly administered; only 93% of the allocation was ever committed, leaving £311 million of uncommitted resources.</p><p> </p><p>This Government has overhauled the administration of the 2007-13 programme, and cleaned up the mess left behind on the 2000-06 programme, and at the same time, navigated through the reams of complex European Commission bureaucracy around the programme.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 26/03/2015 08:48:12 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 46774 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417534

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	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 Business, Innovation and Skills, how many consortia (a) containing and (b) not containing UK businesses have (i) made bids for and (ii) been successful in securing funding under the Eureka Eurostars programme in each financial year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	9625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p><strong>UK business engagement with the Eurostars programme in financial years 2010 – 2011 to 2014 - 2015.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>FY 2010-2011(1)</p></td><td><p>FY 2011-2012</p></td><td><p>FY 2012-2013</p></td><td><p>FY2013-2014</p></td><td><p>FY 2014-2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All Applications</p></td><td><p>745</p></td><td><p>728</p></td><td><p>354</p></td><td><p>594</p></td><td><p>655</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Applications with UK Partners (a)</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p>108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Applications without UK Partners (b)</p></td><td><p>603</p></td><td><p>606</p></td><td><p>304</p></td><td><p>497</p></td><td><p>547</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All Funded Projects</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Funded Projects with UK Partners (a)</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Funded projects without UK Partners (b)</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of calls</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>increases in the proportion of a project supported from 2010 mean that comparisons with earlier participant numbers would not be comparing like with like.</li></ol> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 17/09/2015 14:25:44 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

78376

	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, with reference to the Answer of 3 December 2013, Official Report, column 630W, on EU grants and loans, how much and what proportion of 2007 to 2013 European Regional Development Fund monies allocated to the UK with match-funding in place have been (a) contractually committed and (b) drawn down in (i) each English region and (ii) in total to date.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the attached table (1). The “contractually committed” figures are up to 30 September 2014. All contractually committed funding has had match funding identified, so no separate figures are shown for this.</p><p>Across the programme, an average of 100% of the programme is now contractually committed. 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.</p><p>Where the contractually committed figure is slightly less than the total allocation, this reflects the restrictive, bureaucratic rules associated with the whole programme, and the lack of flexibility in the rules.</p><p>To place this in context, I attach with this answer a table (2) showing the allocations in the 2000-06 programme under the last Labour Government: only 93% of the allocation was ever committed, leaving £392 million of uncommitted resources; of which £48 million was uncommitted in the West Midlands Objective 2 area, £64 million uncommitted in the North West Objective 2 area, and £38 million uncommitted in the Yorkshire and the Humber Objective 2 area.</p><p>In this context, despite the complexities, the 2007-13 programme has been far better administered under this Government than the 2000-06 programme under the last Administration.</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 processes involved in the programme, as a consequence of rules imposed by the European Commission.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name 206317 Umunna - Table 1.docx title Table 1 2 file name 206317 Umunna - Table 2.pdf title Table 2 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:11:42 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

78383

	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, 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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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