AQW 6615/16-21 Written question to the Minister for Infrastructure
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail how much European Union funding was spent in East Belfast on departmental projects between May 2011 and March 2016.
Asked by Naomi Long MLA on 7 November 2016
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 7 November 2016
- Answer due by
- 22 November 2016
- Answered
- 16 November 20169 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Infrastructure
- Priority question
- No
Answer
It is not possible to provide a total of expenditure disaggregated to a constituency level. An overarching premise of competitive EU funding is that the beneficial impacts of receiving said are evidenced in regional, national and EU added-value terms.
A total of £76.63m has been secured from various EU funding sources towards a wide range of infrastructure projects since 2011 and I have included a breakdown of this at Annex A.
Annex A
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | TOTAL | |
| European Sustainable Competitiveness Programme | 5,800,000 | 10,735,500 | 7,185,000 | 23,720,500 | ||
| A2 Upgrade – Belfast Shore Road to Greenisland | 5,485,000 | 5,485,000 | ||||
| A2 Upgrade – Belfast Shore Road to Greenisland Extension | 3,450,000 | 3,450,000 | ||||
| Replacement of Goldline & Metro Fleet | 5,800,000 | 5,800,000 | ||||
| Extended Bus Replacement Project | 5,250,000 | 5,250,000 | ||||
| Optares and Goldlines | 3,735,000 | 3,732,000 | ||||
| INTERREG IVA | 2,400,000 | 10,278,822 | 12,678,822 | |||
| Portadown Railway Station | 2,400,000 | 2,400,000 | ||||
| Drogheda Viaduct | 3,168,072 | 3,168,072 | ||||
| Enterprise Phase 3 Overhaul Programme – Stage 2 | 7,110,750 | 7,110,750 | ||||
| INTERREG IVB (Arc Atlantique) | 284,000 | 284,000 | ||||
| BATTERIE Project | 284,000 | 284,000 | ||||
| TEN-T | 2,440,506 | 15,724,595 | 2,860,473 | 21,025,574 | ||
| Belfast Intermodal Transport Hub (Development Studies) | 2,860,473 | 2,860,473 | ||||
| Coleraine to Derry Track Relay Phase 1 | 1,309,006 | 1,309,006 | ||||
| Dualling of the A8 Coleman’s Corner to Ballyrickard Roundabout | 15,724,595 | 15,724,595 | ||||
| Installation of rapid charging points for electric vehicles and a supporting IT system | 110,232 | 110,232 | ||||
| York Street Interchange (Scheme Development Studies) | 1,021,268 | 1,021,268 | ||||
| CONNECTING EUROPE FACILITY | 18,917,875 | 18,917,875 | ||||
| Bottleneck Alleviation and Cross Border Connectivity Works Knockmore to Lurgan | 7,576,200 | |||||
| Technical Equipment and Infrastructure Upgrade: Derry to Coleraine Rail Line | 11,341,675 | |||||
| GRAND TOTAL | 2,724,506 | 23,924,595 | 21,014,322 | 10,045,473 | 18,917,875 | 76,626,771 |