Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many Regional Growth Fund bids were submitted by each local enterprise partnership area in the most recent bidding round; and how many of these were successful.
133 bids were submitted to Round 5 of the Regional Growth Fund. Three of these bids withdrew and one was for less than the £1 million bidding threshold.
129 bids were therefore appraised, of which 98 were projects and 31 were programmes. Of these, 13 programmes and 37 projects were selected. Programmes may cover a number of Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas and some are national in scope so are not represented in the following table.
The following table shows the number of Round 5 project bids by LEP area with the number of bids that were selected for funding. Project bids originating from an area covered by more than one LEP are shown at the bottom of the table.
LEP Round 5 Projects | Applications | Selected |
Black Country | 1 | 0 |
Cheshire and Warrington | 5 | 1 |
Coast to Capital | 2 | 1 |
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly | 5 | 0 |
Coventry and Warwickshire | 2 | 2 |
Cumbria | 1 | 0 |
Enterprise M3 | 1 | 1 |
Gloucestershire | 1 | 1 |
Greater Birmingham and Solihull | 6 | 3 |
Greater Cambridge & Greater Peterborough | 1 | 0 |
Greater Lincolnshire | 1 | 0 |
Greater Manchester | 5 | 2 |
Heart of the South West | 13 | 3 |
Hertfordshire | 1 | 0 |
Humber | 2 | 1 |
Lancashire | 4 | 1 |
Leeds City Region | 3 | 2 |
Leicester and Leicestershire | 2 | 0 |
Liverpool City Region | 5 | 3 |
London | 3 | 0 |
New Anglia | 1 | 0 |
North Eastern | 7 | 5 |
Sheffield City Region | 2 | 0 |
South East | 1 | 0 |
South East Midlands | 2 | 2 |
Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire | 1 | 0 |
Swindon and Wiltshire | 2 | 1 |
Tees Valley | 8 | 6 |
Thames Valley Berkshire | 1 | 0 |
West of England | 2 | 0 |
York and North Yorkshire | 1 | 0 |
Project bids from an area covered by more than one LEP: |
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Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, & Sheffield City Region | 1 | 0 |
Greater Birmingham and Solihull & Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire | 1 | 1 |
Greater Birmingham and Solihull & Worcestershire | 1 | 0 |
Greater Cambridge & Greater Peterborough & New Anglia | 1 | 0 |
Northamptonshire & South East Midlands | 2 | 1 |
Grand Total | 98 | 37 |