Question reference: S1W-02833
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
- Date lodged: 26 November 1999
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Current status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 10 December 1999
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make the bid document for Objective 2 funding and the rank ordering of all wards in Scotland that meet EU criteria for Objective 2 Funding publicly available.
Answer
The bid document for all Objective 2 coverage in the UK was that published by DTI, the Scotland Office and other UK Government Departments on 8 October (URN99/1021). On that day I made available to this Parliament the proposals for Scotland, which were based on recommendations from this Executive, including our proposed ward list for Scotland.
Since then I announced on 2 December some minor modifications to our original proposals in order to better reflect the criteria in the EU Regulation. These documents are available in SPICE.There is no rank ordering of all wards in Scotland that meet EU criteria for Objective 2 funding, since the proposals represent a balance between deserving areas in Scotland based on the industrial, rural, urban and fisheries criteria set out in the EU Regulation. In preparing our recommendations we based our proposals on data available from Eurostat, the Office for National Statistics, the General Register Office for Scotland, the Scottish Area Deprivation Index and other relevant material.