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Deposited Paper Dep 01/1748

Deposited by

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Type

Consultation papers; Deposited papers

Date

20 December 2001

Reference

Dep 01/1748

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the regeneration targets to be met by the South West Regional Development Agency. - Includes table.

Asked by

Lord Swire (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

14 December 2001

For answer on

19 December 2001

Answered on

19 December 2001

Mr. Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the regeneration targets to be met by the South West Regional Development Agency. [23750] Alan Johnson: The following are the agreed targets for the South West of England Regional Development Agency's regeneration programmes in 2001-02. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Targets Land and property--Partnership Investment Programme(PIP)--outputs Private Investment generated (£000) 61,964,750 Area of brownfield land reclaimed/brought back into use 39 SE (differentiated by soft and hard end use) (hectares) Woodland created (trees planted or hectares) 0 Treatment of contaminated land (hectares) 0 Jobs--number created and safeguarded 1,140 New industrial commercial floorspace created (square metres) 27,701 Accessibility improved between homes and workplaces (length of 0 footpath/cycleway created) Housing units facilitated on brownfield land (number of housing 250 units) Spend (£000) 6,000,000 Land and property--non PIP outputs Jobs--number created and safeguarded 1,790 Private investment generated (£) 20,500,000 Area of brownfield land reclaimed/brought back into use 84.9 ha (55 SE) Woodland created (trees planted or hectares) 0 Treatment of contaminated land 29.9 HE New industrial/refurbished floorspace created 51,800 Accessibility improved between homes and workplaces 10 Housing units facilitated on brownfield land 340 Spend (£000) 27,642,000 Single Regeneration Budget{ 1} Jobs created/safeguarded{1} 2,410/{1}80 Homes and buildings with improved security 4,125 Voluntary organisations and community groups supported{1} 4,205/{1}84 New business start-ups{1} 572 {1}40 Hectares of land improved/reclaimed for open space and 17 improved/reclaimed/serviced for development (of perhaps a combination of these) Private finance attracted (£000) {2}14,080 Spend (£000) 26,726,000 Rural Programme Number of grants made or projects supported 429 Area of work space created/safeguarded (square metres) 33,686 Match funding attracted as a percentage of RDA's direct cash input 26.4 (£ million) Number of child care places created 100 Spend (£) 9,388,000 Jobs created/safeguarded 2,167 Business started up and surviving at least one year 283 Number/areas of redundant buildings converted to commercial use 260 Number of training places created 1,593 Number of new improved facilities 404 Number of additional visitors 99,649 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Figures for ethnic minorities {2} Million

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

377 c466W; 23750

House

House of Commons

Dept for Culture Media and Sport

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on performance against the target for the Millennium celebrations. - Inc figures.

Asked by

John Bercow (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 December 2001

For answer on

19 December 2001

Answered on

19 December 2001

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on performance against the target for the Millennium celebrations. [22524] Dr. Howells: The Department remains committed to co-ordinating the Government's interest in the Millennium following an array of successful celebrations during the year 2000. After the closure of the Millennium Experience on 31 December 2000 which was operated by the New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC), the Department has continued to worked closely with the Millennium Commission which is distributing over £2 billion of Lottery funds. The commission has invested carefully and the projects it has funded will leave a lasting legacy for generations to come. The commission's projects have created an estimated 13,300 permanent jobs and many capital projects have also acted as a catalyst for the regeneration of key areas throughout the country. Projects have levered in significant additional funding from a wide variety of sources, and the capital projects programme has constituted 1.35 per cent. of the total UK construction industry by value since 1994. A study into the economic impact of the Millennium Experience at Greenwich which was jointly commissioned by NMEC, English Partnerships and the London borough of Greenwich, has established that the Dome eventually generated contracts worth more than £500 million for UK companies; generated £385 million in direct spending by visitors on transport, accommodation, catering etc.; provided work for over 7,700 people in construction and over 5,000 in management and operation between 1997 and 2000; and led to the regeneration of nearly 300 acres of formerly derelict, contaminated land.

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

22524; 377 c314W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Culture Media and Sport

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on progress towards the Public Service Agreement to devolve decision-making to the regions; if the New Opportunities Fund has established a network of regionally based staff in pursuit of the PSA target to...

Asked by

John Bercow (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

377 c310W; 22561;22582

House

House of Commons

Dept for Culture Media and Sport

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the impact on the Government's policies to regenerate seaside resorts of the implementation of recommendations 60-64 of the Gambling Review Report; what estimate the Government has made of the impact on jobs of...

Asked by

Lawrie Quinn (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

377 c317W; 23780;23782

House

House of Commons

Dept for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list for each (a) area-based and (b) other regeneration-related initiative for which his Department is responsible (i) the amount budgeted and (ii) the total expended in each financial year for the planned lifetime of each initiative. -...

Asked by

Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

377 c357W;377 c359-60W; 14037

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what guidance her Department has issued to regional development agencies on supporting seaside and coastal towns; which officials in her Department she has nominated as resort champions; what action her Department is taking to support the implementation of the English...

Asked by

Gordon Marsden (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

377 c476W; 24151;24142;24146

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many regional development agencies have nominated a board member to be a resort champion for that region; and if she will list (a) the regional development agencies which have done so and (b) the board members nominated.

Asked by

Gordon Marsden (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

24152; 377 c476W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list for each (a) area-based and (b) other regeneration-related initiative for which his Department is responsible (i) the amount budgeted and (ii) the total expenditure in each financial year for the planned lifetime of each initiative (a)...

Asked by

Ashok Kumar (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

15 November 2001

For answer on

19 December 2001

Answered on

19 December 2001

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will list for each (a) area-based and (b) other regeneration-related initiative for which his Department is responsible (i) the amount budgeted and (ii) the total expenditure in each financial year for the planned lifetime of each initiative (a) in the UK and (b) in the Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East constituency. [16432] Mr. Nicholas Brown: [holding answer 20 November 2001]: Action Teams for Jobs are the Department's main Area-Based Initiative. They are based in some of the most employment-deprived areas of Great Britain and work closely with local regeneration-related initiatives. Action teams were announced as a one-year initiative in the March 2000 Budget. Three pathfinder Teams started in June 2000, 37 others followed in mid-October 2000, all completed their first year on 12 October 2001. Although final figures are not yet available, initial results indicate that the Teams have engaged over 38,000 clients and helped 41 per cent. (over 15,500) of them into work. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the Budget that the initiative would be extended to March 2004 and expanded to include seven new areas, while a number of existing areas would be divided to sharpen their focus on the most disadvantaged areas. By 2002 there will 63 action teams across GB. Information on action team budgets and expenditure is not available in the form requested. £45.5 million was available for the original 40 teams for their initial one-year life-span. £133 million in total has been allocated to the initiative for the period October 2001 to March 2004. An action team has been operating in the area covered by the Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland Employment Zone since October 2000. It did not originally include any part of the Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East constituency. However, in March 2001 the Team's remit was extended to cover certain disadvantaged groups across the whole of Redcar and Cleveland. From January 2002 there will be two separate action teams in the Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland area. One in Middlesbrough, covering 13 wards with high levels of worklessness (Ayresome; Beckfield; Beechwood; Berwich; Easterside; Grove Hill; Hemlington; North Ormsby; Pallister; Park End; St. Hilda's; Stainton and Thornton and Thorntree) and another in Redcar and Cleveland covering six wards (Coatham; Newcomen; Grangetown; South Bank; Kirkleatham and Easton). The Middlesbrough Action Team will include two wards in the Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East constituency, Hemlington and Park End. The current Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland Action Team has been allocated £625,000 for the period October 2000 to December 2001. The new Middlesbrough Action Team has been allocated £760,000 a year from January 2002 and the new Redcar and Cleveland Action Team has been allocated £500,000 a year. Another Area-Based Initiative is the Employment Zone initiative which was introduced in April 2000 to test out an alternative approach to delivering help to long-term unemployed people find work. They are located in 15 areas of the country where there are high concentrations of long-term unemployment. Originally intended to run for two years until March 2002, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment announced in February 2001 that the Zones would be extended for one year until March 2003. The amount budgeted and the total expenditure to date is as follows: £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Budget Spend 2000-01 52.945 68.273 2001-02 83.374 -- 2002-03 53.574 -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland Employment Zone covers the following wards in the Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East constituency: Hutton, Guisborough, Saltburn, Skelton, Belmont, Brotton, Lockwood, Loftus, Hemlington and Park End. The Zone's total expenditure for the financial year 2000-01 was nearly £3.2 million. It is not possible to identify other specific regeneration- related expenditure in any meaningful way. All the programmes run by the Department for Work and Pensions aim to support the Government's overarching commitment to tackling social exclusion and poverty and improving economic growth. We are doing this in particular by providing a joined-up approach to employment and benefit policies for people of working age, with a single modern, nationwide point of delivery for advice and support on jobs and benefits through Jobcentre Plus; and by introducing a new Pension Service to provide advice and support to today's and tomorrow's pensioners, including the introduction of the pension credit.

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

16432; 377 c359-60W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Culture Media and Sport

Supplementary on the review of the English national stadium.

Member

Glenda Jackson (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

377 c297

House

House of Commons

Dept for Culture Media and Sport

Member

Baroness Jowell (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

377 c297

House

House of Commons

Dept for Culture Media and Sport

Member

Baroness Jowell (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

377 c298

House

House of Commons

Dept for Culture Media and Sport

Supplementary on the review of the English national stadium.

Member

Doug Henderson (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

19 December 2001

Reference

377 c298

House

House of Commons

Dept for Transport Local Government and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what measures are being taken to speed up delivery from multi-modal studies.

Asked by

Jim Cunningham (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 December 2001

Reference

377 c230-1W; 24259

House

House of Commons

Dept for Transport Local Government and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the regeneration projects (a) wholly and (b) partly funded by the Government in Islington since May 1997, with the expenditure to date on each project by central government. - Inc table.

Asked by

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

12 December 2001

For answer on

18 December 2001

Answered on

18 December 2001

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will list the regeneration projects (a) wholly and (b) partly funded by the Government in Islington since May 1997, with the expenditure to date on each project by central Government. [23643] Ms Keeble: Central Government expenditure to date on Islington regeneration schemes is as follows: £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Scheme Expenditure Single Regeneration Budget Futures Gateway 189,583 Kings Cross 30,523,806 Finsbury Park 4,365,254 City Fringe 8,000,000 Total 43,078,643 New Deal for Communities 2000-01 10,000 2001-02 595,282 Total 605,282 Estates Action Prior to 2001-02 7,853,895 2001-02 {1}504,844 Total {1}8,358,739 Neighbourhood Renewal Fund 2001-02 386,828 Capital Challenge 1997-2000 {1}9,500,0000 Grand total {1}61,548,219 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Estimate

Date

18 December 2001

Reference

377 c229W; 23643

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper Dep 01/1730

Deposited by

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Type

Deposited papers

Date

17 December 2001

Reference

Dep 01/1730

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper DEP 01/1793

Deposited by

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Type

Deposited papers

Date

17 December 2001

Reference

DEP 01/1793

House

House of Commons

Dept for Transport Local Government and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what his estimate is of per capita Government public expenditure on regeneration in each of the regions of England in the present financial year. - Includes table.

Asked by

Adam Price (Plaid Cymru)

Answering body

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

22 November 2001

For answer on

17 December 2001

Answered on

17 December 2001

Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what his estimate is of per capita Government public expenditure on regeneration in each of the regions of England in the present financial year. [18520] Ms Keeble: The incidence of regeneration spending{1} in the English regions for 2001-02, on a per capita basis, from the regeneration programmes for which DTLR is responsible, is estimated to be: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. English regions £ North East 69 North West 49 Yorkshire and Humberside 49 East Midlands 23 West Midlands 32 East {2}8 South East 11 South West 11 London 63 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Population figures based on 1995 data. Estimated expenditure is based on a combination of budgets and forecasts. Includes figures for DTLR's Land and Property Programme, Single Regeneration Budget, Housing Action Trusts, Estate Action, Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, New Deal for Communities and work undertaken by English Partnerships. Excludes £15 million from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust and Coalfields Enterprise Fund whose expenditure is distributed on the basis of different regional boundaries, cross-cutting projects by other Government Departments and any local authority expenditure contributing to regeneration. Also excludes European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) money. Total projected ERDF spend for 2001-02 on regeneration in the English regions is £248 million. {2} The Eastern Region did not receive funding from English Partnerships for physical regeneration during 2001-02. This is because there are no coalfields; collapsing land; nor, at present, any Urban Regeneration Companies (these are English Partnerships' principal regeneration functions).

Date

17 December 2001

Reference

18520; 377 c7W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Transport Local Government and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if the planning Green Paper will propose that spatial development strategies no longer be decided at county council level. - Includes ref to chapter 4 of our consultation paper entitled 'Planning: delivering a fundamental change'.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 December 2001

Reference

377 c22W; 22391

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper DEP 01/1782

Deposited by

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Type

Deposited papers

Date

13 December 2001

Reference

DEP 01/1782

House

House of Commons

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