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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.


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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

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

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