Grants payments by Advantage West Midlands. Period covered 2006-07 to 2008-09
Applicant
Description
Actuals( 1)
Budget( 2)
Budget( 3)
Grand total
Shrewsbury and Atcham BC
Shrewsbury Environmental Technology Centre (Rural Regeneration Zone (RRZ))
190,103
340,212
-
530,315
Entertainment Venue for Shrewsbury
3,995
-
-
3,995
Shrewsbury Business Improvement District
-
60,000
-
60,000
Total
194,098
400,212
0
594,310
Shropshire county council
RRZ Renewable Energy Capital Grant Scheme Pilot
-
350,000
790,000
1,140,000
Sustainable Tourism Business Grant Scheme
-
128,720
226,660
355,380
Craven Arms Learning Centres
-
308,185
448,766
756,951
Shropshire Food Enterprise Centre
800,563
-
-
800,563
M54 Shropshire Tourism Informat
5,000
-
-
5,000
Northern Marches Leader+
25,206
16,805
-
42,011
Eastern Oswestry Gateway-Infrastructure
-
453,600
750,000
1,203,600
Civic Park Whitchurch-Land Acquisition
9,701
4,964
-
14,665
Shropshire Rural Access to Services programme
400,000
400,000
400,000
1,200,000
Shropshire Food Enterprise Centre2
-
2,628,698
2,342,815
4,971,513
SPARKS (SRB613)
5,044
-
-
5,044
Total
1,245,514
4,290,972
4,958,241
10,494,727
Telford and Wrekin Council
Transforming Telford-Projects
-
352,500
4,610,500
4,963,000
Land Stabilisation in the ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site
-
300,000
2,300,000
2,600,000
Telford and Wrekin Rural Access to Services Programme
94,749
100,000
100,000
294,749
Transforming Telford Prelims
-
395,000
-
395,000
Wellington Market Towns Initiative
56,000
403,207
193,180
652,387
Telford and Wrekin Redundancy Fund
20,000
10,000
-
30,000
Telford First
404,630
-
-
404,630
Improving Access in Telford (SRB648)
3,292
-
-
3,292
Total
578,671
1,560,707
7,203,680
9,343,058
Grand Total
2,018,283
6,251,891
12,161,921
20,432,095
(1) 2006-07 is actual grant defrayed. (2 )2007-08 is budget committed. (3 )2008-09 is budget committed.
£
Project Title
Total ERDF Grant Offered
2006
2007
2008
Tourism for Telford's Future
843,079
113,435
70,337
0
Industrial Evolution Through Innovation-Coalbrookdale
1,028,393
53,378
0
0
Industrial Evolution through Innovation-Delta Research Park
1,950,000
262,963
109,315
112,419
Industrial Evolution through Innovation-Polymer Cluster Elem (Core)
911,132
212,863
296,238
90,577
Industrial Evolution through Innovation-Polymer Cluster Elem (Transitional)
336,620
101,879
76,985
33,961
Donnington Business Units
486,666
0
486,666
0
Hadley Park Industrial Units
416,528
0
408,379
8,149
5,972,418
744,518
1,447,920
245,106
Small Businesses: Video Games
Mr. Evans:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many small and medium enterprises were created in the UK games industry in each of the last three years. [218344]
Malcolm Wicks [holding answer 14 July 2008]:These figures are not available. BERR’s published data on SMEs does not currently offer a sectoral breakdown at a level of detail sufficient to identify video games businesses specifically.
Accurate data on the video and computer games sector is generally not readily available to the Department, particularly as the sector has not had its own separate Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code. A new SIC code for computer games has now been agreed though it will not be possible for this to deliver data until 2010 at the earliest.
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Small Businesses: West Midlands
Mr. Jenkins:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many and what proportion of businesses in (a) West Midlands and (b) each parliamentary constituency in the West Midlands are small businesses. [215778]
Mr. McFadden:
Estimates of the total number of businesses in the West Midlands are published by BERR. Latest published data (2005) are as follows. Data for the UK and the regions for 2007 will be published in late July 2008.
At the start of 2005, there were 353,400 businesses in the West Midlands Government office region, of which 99.2 per cent. (or 350,515) were small (with 0-49 employees).
Data for parliamentary constituencies are only available for VAT-registered enterprises. It is estimated that the majority (97.9 per cent.) of these will be small. Latest published data (2007) will be placed in the Library of the House of Commons. Data for 2008 will be published in November 2008.
Businesses are unlikely to be VAT-registered if they fall below the compulsory VAT threshold, which was £60,000 at the start of 2006. Only 1.9 million out of 4.5 million UK enterprises (43 per cent.) were registered for VAT at the start of 2006.
VAT-registered businesses in each parliamentary constituency in the West Midlands, start of 2007
Parliamentary constituency
Number
Aldridge-Brownhills
2,095
Birmingham, Edgbaston
1,855
Birmingham, Erdington
1,390
Birmingham, Hall Green
1,235
Birmingham, Hodge Hill
790
Birmingham, Ladywood
7,335
Birmingham, Northfield
795
Birmingham, Perry Barr
1,475
Birmingham, Selly Oak
1,795
Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath
2,395
Birmingham, Yardley
1,575
Bromsgrove
3,695
Burton
3,405
Cannock Chase
3,010
Coventry North East
1,865
Coventry North West
1,780
Coventry South
2,865
Dudley North
1,795
Dudley South
2,585
Halesowen and Rowley Regis
2,465
Hereford
4,190
Leominster
5,375
Lichfield
3,110
Ludlow
4,650
Meriden
3,205
Mid Worcestershire
4,450
Newcastle-under-Lyme
2,055
North Shropshire
4,440
North Warwickshire
3,210
Nuneaton
2,520
Redditch
2,620
Rugby and Kenilworth
3,925
Shrewsbury and Atcham
3,680
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Solihull
2,715
South Staffordshire
2,695
Stafford
2,680
Staffordshire Moorlands
2,855
Stoke-on-Trent Central
1,920
Stoke-on-Trent North
1,685
Stoke-on-Trent South
1,665
Stone
3,675
Stourbridge
2,445
Stratford-on-Avon
6,210
Sutton Coldfield
2,845
Tamworth
2,935
Telford
2,115
The Wrekin
2,560
Walsall North
1,820
Walsall South
2,150
Warley
1,765
Warwick and Leamington
4,985
West Bromwich East
1,445
West Bromwich West
2,240
West Worcestershire
4,235
Wolverhampton North East
1,380
Wolverhampton South East
1,800
Wolverhampton South West
2,315
Worcester
2,545
Wyre Forest
2,965
Source: Business Start-ups and Closures: VAT Registrations and De-registrations 1994-2006, available at http://stats.berr.gov.uk/ed/vat
