Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much European Regional Development Fund funding by English region has been committed to projects to date; and what proportion of the total allocation that funding represents.
The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2014-2020 programme for England has been allocated to Local Enterprise Partnership areas (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-structural-funds-uk-allocations-2014-to-2020). The programme is valued at £2,830 million based on the current exchange rate.
Below is a breakdown of commitments by regional delivery team up to the end of June 2017.
Areas covered by ERDF Delivery Teams | Commitments to end of June 2017 (£m) |
London | 51 |
East of England and South East | 79 |
East and West Midlands | 288 |
North East and Yorkshire & the Humber | 277 |
North West | 248 |
South West | 238 |
Total | 1,181 |