Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much money was spent on (a) administration and (b) funding for the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Since the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund opened in 2014, the annual cost of administrating the fund in England has been approximately £0.7 million. A total of £34.8 million grant funding has been paid out from the overall scheme, including technical assistance costs. A breakdown of funding paid out since 2014 is as follows:
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