AQW 6615/16-21


Mrs Naomi Long
Alliance Party
East Belfast


Tabled Date: 07/11/2016
Answered On Date: 16/11/2016
Priority Written: No


Question:
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.


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