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18) Structural and Investment Funds S&I funds are grants that promote economic development and social cohesion aimed at reducing disparities between regions (the ERDF) and assist job creation (ESF). Funds for supporting structural adjustment in fisheries (EMFF) and agriculture (EARDF) are covered elsewhere. The UK will receive €5.8 billion from the European Regional Development Fund and €4.9bn from the European Social Fund over the current 2014-20 programme. Its priorities are technological innovation, access to ICT (eg 5G wireless), small business competitiveness, and shift to a low-carbon economy. The allocation of funds between projects is a devolved matter but for the 2014-20 programme, the UK government re-assigned monies destined from the EU for England to its sister nations – Liverpool and Sheffield councils unsuccessfully challenged this in court. These cities are in ‘transition’ regions whose GDP per capita is between 75% & 90% of the EU average – Northern Ireland and the Highlands & Islands of
Scotland are similarly categorised. However, Cornwall and much of Wales have GDP below 75% and EU heavily favours such ‘Objective One’ regions. (House of Commons Briefing Paper, UK Funding from the EU, 10 January 2018) European Investment Bank “The UK has paid in €3.5 billion in capital to the EIB (16% of the total). Since the Bank’s founding, projects in the UK have received €117 billion in loans, 9% of the total lent.” “In 2016, a £700 million loan towards the Thames Tideway Tunnel (is) the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the UK water industry…to [prevent] its existing sewers currently overflowing into the Thames on a weekly basis.” (House of Commons briefing paper, European Investment Bank, 16 November 2017) South Yorkshire case study “The industrial upheavals of the 1980s kicked the stuffing out of communities, and South Yorkshire was amongst the worst hit. History may have proved Margaret Thatcher right in the need for the economy to be administered a strong dose of nasty medicine if the country was to recover from being the sick man of Europe, but the side-effects were horrible…It was the EU that threw a lifeline, supporting a recovery plan put in place by the local authorities in Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield, which were faced by the grim fact that without a radical rebirth, the area and its people had no future...And the evidence of the EU’s worth is plain to see in the Dearne today, its wastelands now just a memory…We owe the EU a debt of gratitude.” (Source: A Vine, What the EU has done for Yorkshire, Yorkshire Post, 21 June 2016) “The EU Regional Objective One fund that we had (2000 to 2008) has given £1 billion to South Yorkshire...That was used to help rebalance the economy after the collapse of the coal and steel industries” (Source: Sheffield’s business Councillor Bramall quoted by A Evans, The Star, 30 July 2015) “Under current plans up to half the funding promised to Sheffield could be clawed back by the government with a stroke of the pen… It would be utterly unacceptable to use Brexit as a way to slash vital funding for building infrastructure, growing businesses and training apprentices.” (Source: LibDem leader Tim Farron quoted by D Hobson, The Star, 10 Oct 2016) Is it worth losing investment in UK infrastructure?
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