European Social Fund
(asked on 24th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much each country of the UK received from the European Social Fund in each year since 2012.
Funding for European Structural Fund programmes, including the European Social Fund (ESF), are set as part of the EU’s multiannual financial framework (MFF), The ESF allocations to the UK, excluding any Youth Employment Initiative funding, for the 2014-20 MFF are as follows:
| 2014 (€) | 2015 (€) | 2016 (€) | 2017 (€) | 2018 (€) | 2019 (€) | 2020 (€) | TOTAL (2014-20) (€) |
England | - | 899,042,788 | 463,063,745 | 476,653,947 | 486,192,813 | 495,922,545 | 505,845,912 | 3,326,721,750 |
Scotland | 56,201,749 | 57,326,918 | 58,474,453 | 60,082,304 | 61,284,704 | 62,511,128 | 63,761,984 | 419,643,240 |
Wales | 135,265,834 | 137,973,881 | 140,735,757 | 144,089,622 | 146,973,230 | 149,914,450 | 152,914,266 | 1,007,867,040 |
Northern Ireland | 27,621,127 | 28,174,107 | 28,738,079 | 30,580,991 | 31,192,982 | 31,817,200 | 32,453,855 | 210,578,341 |
Gibraltar | - | 1,315,551 | 677,820 | 690,861 | 704,868 | 718,875 | 733,367 | 4,841,342 |
These figures include EU funding available to support projects and programme administration, and the performance reserve, and does not include any non-EU co-financing. Each country of the UK has its own operational programme setting out the objectives and focus of ESF expenditure.
ESF managing authorities will hold data on the 2007-13 programmes. The managing authorities for the ESF programmes in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar are the Devolved Administrations and HM Government of Gibraltar respectively. In England, where the Department for Work and Pensions is the managing authority, the allocations of ESF funding were:
| 2012 (€) | 2013 (€) |
England | 410,923,902 | 427,344,776 |