Brussels to give £2.6bn in regional aid

Brussels to give £2.6bn in regional aid - 2001 - Financial Times 28 February 2001, 4(1) .

The European Commission has announced £2.59bn in aid over six years for ten UK regions. The grants from the EU structural fund will allow the creation of 277,000 jobs in east England, east Wales, Hastings, London, the North-East, the North-West, Scotland, the South West, Thanet, the West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humberside, and the safeguarding of a further 100,000. The funding is conditional on further investment from the public and private sectors in the UK and should result in a total spending of 27.78bn Euros by 2006.


ENGLAND
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
EUROPEAN FUNDING
EUROPEAN UNION
GRANTS
HASTINGS
LONDON
NORTHEAST ENGLAND
NORTH WEST ENGLAND
OBJECTIVE ONE FUNDING
REGIONAL AID
REGIONS
SOUTH WEST ENGLAND
STRUCTURAL FUNDS
THANET
WALES
WEST MIDLANDS