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Regional Development Agencies: Expenditure

Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding allocated by his Department to each regional development agency was spent on tourism in each of the last five years. [287907]

Mr. McFadden: The following table shows RDA expenditure on tourism in the last five years.

Expenditure on tourism includes marketing and tourism promotion, capital spending related to tourism, product development related to tourism, and research related to tourism.


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Expenditure on Tourism (£ million)
RDAs 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

AWM

2

3.8

8

12.5

9.5

EEDA

0.6

0.8

1.5

1.7

1.1

EMDA

2.5

4.1

5

4.6

4.2

LDA

23.7

23.8

23.9

29.4

25.9

NWDA(1)

4.1

5.5

3.4

9.5

11.8

ONE (2)

3.3

7.1

10.8

10.6

11.9

SEEDA

1.8

2.4

2.2

2.2

2.3

SWRDA(3)

9.2

7.5

6.4

5.5

4.7

YF

4

4.1

7.5

6.5

10.5

(1) NWDA have not included: (a) core cost for funding Destination Management Organisations or Regional Tourist Boards and (b) specific funding to organisations in Liverpool for Capital of Culture activity.
(2) ONE took over the delivery of tourism in 2004-05.
(3) Figures for 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 include expenditure related to SWRDA's role as the national RDA lead for tourism policy.

Regional Development Agencies: Finance

Dan Rogerson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills whether further budget changes are planned for each regional development agency before its current corporate plan expires. [285337]

Mr. McFadden [holding answer 9 July 2009]: The regional development agencies (RDAs) have budget allocations for 2009-10 and indicative budgets for 2010-11. There are no plans to change RDA budgets.

Julia Goldsworthy: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the effect of the recession on the flow of funds from regional development agencies. [285510]

Mr. McFadden [holding answer 9 July 2009]: The Department has asked the RDAs to review their spending plans on how they will use their resources to deliver their priorities in the light of changes to their budgets and the changed economic conditions. This information will be available in the RDAs (refreshed) Corporate Plans, which will be published in the summer.

On an ongoing basis, the Department monitors the agencies use of funds including actual expenditure against annual budgets.

Mr. Evennett: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what funding his Department has channelled through regional development agencies for (a) skills training and (b) careers advice in the last five years. [288232]

Mr. McFadden: The information requested is as follows:

(a) The following table shows funding spent on RDA programmes where 'skills training' was the specific primary objective are as follows:

RDA Expenditure on Skills Training (£ million)
RDA 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

AWM

12.9

6.0

3.6

2.1

2.2

EEDA

2.1

3.0

2.8

2.5

1.3

EMDA

3.5

3.8

7.5

7.5

4.1

LDA(1)

(2)

13.4

31.1

19.0

93.2

NWDA

9.3

7.3

16.6

23.2

16.8

ONE

2.7

5.2

5.7

7.9

5.0

SEEDA

3.1

2.3

2.4

2.2

1.8

SWRDA

0.4

1.0

1.1

1.1

1.5

YF

23.4

17.9

18.5

19.5

11.0

(1) Figures used are aggregate figures for the directorate of Business and Skills.
(2) To separate out the data would incur disproportionate cost.

(b) RDAs have no specific remit to provide careers advice, and as such, there is no direct funding of any careers advice programmes. However, there are a number of RDA programmes such as employment brokerage to
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place graduates with SMEs, which may be considered to contain elements of 'careers advice' as a by-product of the programme.

Regional Development Agencies: Mass Media

Mr. Hunt: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) how much each of the regional development agencies and the London Development Agency (a) spent on media monitoring in each of the last three years and (b) has allocated to expenditure on media monitoring in each of the next three years; [280507]

(2) how much money each regional development agency has (a) spent on media monitoring in each of the last three years and (b) allocated to media monitoring in each of the next three years. [282034]

Mr. McFadden [holding answer 17 and 24 June 2009]: The following table shows RDA expenditure on media monitoring services in the last three years.

RDA actual expenditure on media monitoring
£
RDA 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

AWM

15,807

20,467

27,952

EEDA

19,000

20,000

9,000

EMDA

41,472

19,999

29,004

LDA 1

5,437

9,210

18,000

NWDA

21,864

14,441

21,824

ONE

18,864

32,154

35,291

SEEDA

24,819

26,811

19,884

SWRDA

27,152

36,544

33,036

YF

30,014

21,385

24,876

Note:
During the period 2006-07 to 2008-09 the LDA also made an annual contribution towards the GLA Group In-House cuttings service.

The following table shows RDA allocations to media monitoring in the next three years. These figures are nominal, not yet part of formal budgets and therefore subject to change.

RDA allocated expenditure on media monitoring
£000
RDA 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12

AWM

29

(1)-

(1)-

EEDA

9

9

9

EMDA

19

19

19

LDA

10

(2)-

(2)-

NWDA

25

25

25

ONE

18

18

18

SEEDA

28

28

28

SWRDA

32

31

30

YF

30

30

30

(1) AWM are currently reviewing their future spend in all areas.
(2) LDA has made no provisional allocation, as the contracts with media monitoring companies are due for renewal at the end of the 2009-10 financial year.

Regional Planning and Development

Robert Neill: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 28 April 2009, Official Report, column 1276W, on regional planning and development, on what date the regional industrial development boards were established; how much funding his Department has allocated to each such brand for 2009-10; and what the remit and function of each such board is. [279992]


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