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Polly Toynbee

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what payments his Department and its predecessors have made to Ms Polly Toynbee in the last five years; and for what purposes. [290997]

Mr. McFadden [holding answer 14 September 2009]: A payment was made to Polly Toynbee in July 2007 in the sum of £587.50 for chairing the women's Entrepreneur Ambassadors Event at Lancaster House in London.

There are no other recorded payments to her in the last five years.

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what payments regional development agencies have made to Ms Polly Toynbee in the last five years; and for what purposes. [290999]

Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 14 September 2009]: Ms Toynbee chaired the EEDA annual meeting in September 2006. The meeting is an open annual public meeting to report on the activities of the agency. The focus of the event was growth through successful partnerships. A payment of £2,500 was made to an agency.

She was a speaker at the 2007 Prowess Conference at Brighton Racecourse 7-8 February 2007, which was part sponsored by SEEDA. No direct payment was made to her by SEEDA.

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Public Sector: Procurement

Lorely Burt: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what progress his Department has made in implementing the recommendations of the Glover Report on Accelerating the SME economic engine in its procurement processes. [287132]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The Department is working closely with the Office of Government Commerce, who are leading on implementation of the Glover recommendations, to ensure that all 12 are delivered on time and in a way that is effective for SMEs. We expect to deliver the majority of the measures later this year. The recommendation of a free, single, easy-to-search portal is on course to be delivered by 2010.

Regeneration: Finance

Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much each regional development agency spent on land reclamation projects in each year since 2000; and if he will make a statement. [265242]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The following table shows RDAs expenditure on land reclamation projects in each year since 2000. Figures are not yet available for 2008-09.

The figures provided include funds allocated to the 'Land Reclamation Programmes' inherited by RDAs from English Partnerships and, following their conclusion, any new environmental improvement programmes which have succeeded them.

£ million
RDA	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
AWM	40	50	44	102	80	56	59	46
EEDA	1		13	21	24	37	25	11
EMDA	5	13	13	3	7	2	4	5
LDA	103	149	140	108	129	122	131	144
NWDA	20	23	20	18	15	6	17	39
ONE	22	20	14	3	2	5	2	0.6
SEEDA	6	1	21	11	40	17	11	5
SWRDA	(1)-	(1)-	32	21	17	27	22	32
YF	12	5	6	4	1	0.5	0.7	0.2
(1) Due to a change in management recording system during 2002-03, producing figures before 2002-03 would incur disproportionate cost.

Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many land reclamation projects regional development agencies (a) started and (b) completed in each year since 2000. [265278]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The following tables shows land reclamation projects started and completed by RDAs in each year since 2000 to 2008. Figures are not yet available for 2008-2009.

The figures provided include funds allocated to the 'Land Reclamation programmes' inherited by RDAs from English Partnerships and, following their conclusion, any new environmental improvement programmes which have succeeded them.

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Projects started
RDA	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
AWM	6	9	37	8	5	4	8	4
EEDA	5	2	16	15	4	8	13	2
EMDA	30	71	28	9	4	5	15	42
LDA	50	8	4	4	10	1	2	0
NWDA	56	49	52	43	20	12	28	33
ONE	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SEEDA	5	9	13	12	13	0	0	0
SWRDA	A	A	1	0	4	2	4	7
YF	B	28	13	6	4	0	1	0

Projects completed
RDA	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
AWM	0	0	3	11	12	18	9	16
EEDA	2	4	9	9	6	6	7	12
EMDA	22	61	71	60	48	52	38	32
LDA	10	12	13	10	8	12	9	5
NWDA	9	15	27	36	36	30	28	36
ONE	23	27	21	21	0	2	0	6
SEEDA	3	2	6	10	0	3	4	6
SWRDA	A	A	2	0	5	3	1	1
YF	B	25	21	21	13	1	2	0
Notes: 1. A new programme management recording system was introduced. To separate out this data would incur disproportionate cost. 2. To separate out this data would incur disproportionate cost.

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