Three Objective One Programmes

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Three Objective One Programmes

• Highlands and Islands - a sparsely populated
  rural area
• West Wales - geographically mainly rural, but
  with a large former coal mining and industrial
  area
• Merseyside - predominantly urban, focusing on a
  large city

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Highlands and Islands Special Programme

• The rural area of North West Scotland.
• The most sparsely populated area of the UK

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Three priorities

• Increasing business competitiveness, creating
  employment increasing incomes
• Creating the conditions for regional
  competitiveness
• Human Resource Development

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Priority One competitiveness, employment and
incomes

• 5 measures
• marketing, advisory information services to
  businesses
• stimulate private sector investment
• development of innovation and RD, including
  industry-academic links
• sites premises
• restructuring primary sector

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Measure 1.1 marketing, advisory information
services to businesses

• Objectives
• expand information, counselling support
  services
• available marketing services
• market intelligence for SMEs
• ERDF supported

• Grants to
• business support providers
• marketing initiatives
• Activity
• SMEs assisted
• investment levered
• Outputs
• jobs
• turnover

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Other priority 1 measures

• 1.2 Stimulate private sector investment
• ERDF for financial assistance schemes
• 1.3 innovation RD
• ERDF for SMEs to pursue innovation, research
  institutions

• 1.4 Serviced sites premises
• ERDF for development
• 1.5 Primary sector
• EAGGF for restructuring

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Priority 2 Competitiveness

• 2.1 Communications infrastructure
• ERDF
• 2.2 Energy networks
• ERDF, including exchange of best practice
• 2.3 Waste management
• ERDF including best practice linked to community
  education

• 2.4 Maintain rural environment
• EAGGF
• 2.5 Community social infrastructure
• ERDF for
• animateurs,
• community ventures,
• infrastructure
• cultural initiatives

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Priority 3 Human Resources

• 3.1 Active labour market policies
• ESF for training
• alongside New Deal
• 3.2 Promoting social inclusion
• ESF for
• disadvantaged groups
• school to work transition
• community leadership

• 3.3 Lifelong learning
• ESF - open learning material
• research skills
• guidance counselling
• 3.4 Adaptability entrepreneurship
• ESF - in company training
• business start ups
• 3.5 Gender imbalance
• ESF

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The balance of fundinga breakdown of measures
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West Wales

• In area, mainly rural
• agricultural base
• hill farming, upland pasture
• sparse population
• Population is mainly in former coal mining area
  on southern boundary
• polluted and derelict environment
• high rate of out migration

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Programme objectives
West Wales

• productive business sector
• infrastructure for business
• sustainable communities
• skills

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Priorities
West Wales

• Business competitiveness
• A competitive environment
• Community regeneration
• Human resources
• Use of natural resources

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Breakdown of funds by priority in West Wales
Objective One proposal
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Private sector funds
West Wales

• 13 per cent of total spend
• 29 per cent of spend on competitive environment
• 10 per cent of spend on business competitiveness

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Business Competitiveness - objectives
West Wales

• increase birth and survival rates of firms
• increase competitiveness of existing companies
• increase value added
• promote sustainable development

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Business competitiveness - measures
West Wales

• Financial support
• Business support
• Innovation

• Knowledge driven economy
• Improving skills
• Sites and premises

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A competitive environmentmeasures
West Wales

• accessibility
• information and communications
• energy
• environmental improvement
• tourism

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Types of projects

• Infrastructure
• Innovation
• New business formation
• Business development
• Tourism facilities
• Business support

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Merseyside the strategic balance

• Locational problems
• Decline in manual services
• Poor image
• Dereliction and pollution
• Low educational attainment
• Sink areas
• Multiple deprivation
• Low rate of business formation

• High value added industries including
  petrochemicals
• Strong medical and science research base
• Low land prices
• Available labour
• large output of graduates
• Good communications

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