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Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-07-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding from the (a) European Regional Development Fund and (b) European Social Fund was spent in (i) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency and (ii) each borough of the Liverpool City Region in each year since 2010.

Margot James

Information is not held for individual constituencies or boroughs. Figures are recorded for Merseyside and are from the 2007-13 programming period where projects could spend money up to the end of 2015, with some reimbursements taking place in 2016.

The figures for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) are:

Year

£m Merseyside

2009

£77.30

2010

£25.00

2011

£28.80

2012

£27.00

2013

£29.70

2014

£21.60

2015

£33.50

2016

£20.75

Total

£263.65

For the European Social Fund (ESF) figures as follows:

Year

£m Merseyside

2010

£44.04

2011

£20.58

2012

£11.61

2013

£8.75

2014

£7.70

2015

£9.93

2016

£0.29

Total

£102.90