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Regional Development Agencies: Trade Unions

Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform pursuant to the answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles), of 9 January 2008, Official Report, column 676W, on regional development agencies: trade unions, what grants were given by each regional development agency to (a) trade unions and (b) the Trades Union Congress from the date of their establishment to the start of the period covered in the answer. [184730]

Mr. McFadden: RDAs fund initiatives through a variety of third party organisations to deliver projects to increase economic growth, such as on work force development and economic inclusion. The specific focus and priorities of such activities are set out in each region’s regional economic strategy and will differ according to the needs, opportunities and priorities for economic growth in each region.

The following funding has been provided by RDAs to trade unions as requested in the question.

RDA Trade union Project Grant (£000)

AWM

Unity Trade Union

Work force development project, ensuring individuals subject to redundancy were aware of skills in demand in their local area

333

YF

National Farmers Union

Research on rural development project

38


The following funding has also been provided by RDAs to the Trades Union Congress as requested in the question.


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RDA Project Grants (£000 )

AWM

Improving workplace skills across the West Midlands region

307

EEDA

Raising basic skills in the workplace

189

LDA

Trade union participation in regional economic development. Strengthening London trade unions capacity for more effective input to the design and delivery of economic policy and programmes

225

LDA

Adult Learners Week Fund, LDA/Union Learn/SERTUC partnership to stimulate learning in workplaces with trade union representation where union learning representatives recruit and support learners

289

NWDA

Capacity and effectiveness of trade union learning representatives. Research-based project commissioned by UCLAN to look at capacity and effectiveness of trade union learn representatives across the region

68

ONE

TUC and ONE “Working Together” project. Helping local businesses raise their profile

191

SWRDA

Trade unions working for the South West

427

SWRDA

TUC Learning Services

8

SWRDA

Equalities South West

78


South East England Development Agency: Expenditure

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform if he will give a breakdown of the South East England Development Agency’s expenditure by main budget heading for each of the last five years. [186797]

Mr. McFadden: The expenditure figures provided in the following tables are based on SEED A’s Annual Reports and Accounts. The main budget headings relate to SEED A’s Corporate Plans 2005-08 and 2002-05. The expenditure headings for the two plans were not the same.

£000
Programme expenditure 2006-07 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03

Business and international

46,987

49,478

Learning and skills

25,641

23,667

Development and infrastructure

54,743

33,931

Strategy and sustainability

9,323

9,266

Resources

8,150

10,301

DCLG (ODPM)—community fund

4,331

7,395

Coalfields

991

257

European funds

7,260

6,416

Subsidiary companies

14

22

Sub-total

157,440

140,733

Staff and admin expenditure

24,339

22,340

Assets expenditure

13,630

18,427

Total

195,409

181,500


£000
Programme expenditure 2006-07 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03

Business and international

10,534

8,823

7,359

Learning, skills and work force, wired region and social inclusion

12,612

12,974

9,402

Community renaissance and infrastructure

65,232

58,874

45,040

Strategy and corporate services

899

1,242

1,970

ODPM—community fund

9,398

916

European funds

3,110

2,860

Sub-total

101,785

85,689

63,771

Non grant expenditure

6,349

4,826

2,730

Coalfield expenditure

210

3,817

88

Staff and admin expenditure

21,131

20,047

15,070

Assets expenditure

34,595

10,632

11,194

Total

164,070

125,011

92,853


Tourism: Expenditure

Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much each regional development agency spent on tourism in each of the last three years. [187170]

Mr. McFadden: The following figures refer to spending by RDAs on core tourism and leisure objectives.


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Expenditure on tourism (£ million)( 1)
RDAs 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07

AWM

2.2

2.3

3.8

EEDA(2)

0.6

0.8

1.5

EMDA

3

4.5

5.3

LDA(3)

23.7

23.8

23.9

NWDA

4

5

6.1

ONE(4)

3.3

7.1

10.8

SEEDA

1.8

2.4

2.2

SWRDA

1.5

3

3.2

YF

1.7

2.2

3.9

(1) RDAs have also spent on activities related to tourism initiatives (such as general marketing of a region; specific regeneration projects; or human resource development) but this money has not been allocated from core tourism budgets.
(2) EEDA’s business model for tourism changed significantly over this three year period, resulting in the increased level of investment for 2006-07.
(3) LDA figures include core funding to VisitLondon.
(4) ONE took over the delivery of tourism in 2004-05, which is delivered from within the agency.

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