Question

To ask Her Majesty’s Government which United Kingdom organisations have received European Union funding in the last year from structural, cohesion or other funds.

The United Kingdom receives an allocation for the Structural Funds (the European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund) but not the Cohesion Fund.

A large number of United Kingdom organisations received European Funding under Structural Funds programmes in the last year. As these are too numerous to set down here, I have provided below details of websites which contain lists of beneficiary organisations.

The links to the Structural Funds programmes are:

ERDF Programmes in England: https://www.gov.uk/erdf-programmes-progress-and-achievements.

ESF England and Gibraltar: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/european-social-fund-2007-to-2013

Devolved Administrations (ERDF & ESF)

Northern Ireland: http://www.dfpni.gov.uk/index/finance/european-funding.htm

Scotland: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/support/17404/StructuralFunds2007-2013

Wales: http://wefo.wales.gov.uk/programmes/progress/searchprojects/?lang=en

In terms of other sources of EU funding that BIS is responsible for, this includes the Framework Programme 7 for Research & Innovation with numerous participants from Higher Education, Research Organisations, Private Sector and Public bodies. Project information is not set out on the Commission website in such a way as to make it easy to identify UK recipients of EU funding in a calendar year.

Another source of EU funding that BIS was responsible for was the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP) under the Competitiveness of Innovation and Enterprises (CIP). The latest beneficiaries report is the 2012 version. The following link will provide more information about the recipients of the programme, Beneficiaries Report October 2012 Final Version – http://ec.europa.eu/cip/files/cip/docs/beneficiaries-report-october-2012.en.pdf