As the Deputy will be aware the Border Midland and Western region was designated in 1999 as an Objective One region. In general, programmes in the education sector are delivered on a national basis. My Department has provided provisional expenditure returns in respect of all measures, funded under the national development plan, for both regions, to the respective operational programme managing authorities. The provisional expenditure returns in respect of the BMW region, for all programmes funded under the 2000-06 NDP, are as follows:
January-December 2000 – £138.3 million – 175.7 million;
January-June 2001 – £80.9 million – 102.7 million.
As regards the specific information requested by the Deputy on expenditure at county level, due to the wide range of programmes in the education sector it would require an inordinate amount of official time to answer the question in the detail requested. However, if the Deputy has any queries regarding a specific programme, I will be happy to obtain the information for her.