Speeches

Hugh Bayley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber received how much funding from the Regional Growth Fund in each year since 2011-12.

Michael Fallon

We do not hold the data in the format requested. The Regional Growth Fund is supporting 51 projects and programmes in Yorkshire and Humber across five funding Rounds. Below is a breakdown of the allocated funding from 2011-2017 by Round:

Round

Projects

Programmes

Allocated funding (£m)

1

6

0

47.3

2

15

2

78.5

3

8

4

92.8

4

8

4

41.5

5

3

1

15

The 11 regional programmes are providing support to small and medium-size businesses in the area. Support from RGF is expected to leverage £1.7bn of private investment.