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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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