Accountablity, Funding, Policy and Strategy

We are accountable to and report to the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS), formerly the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR).

Funding and Budget

The NWDA invests money in the Northwest from two sources:

• The Government, via The Single Budget
• The European Union, via the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

The Single Budget pools money from six contributing Government Departments:

• Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)
• Department of Communities & Local Government (CLG)
• Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC)
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
• Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS)
• UK Trade & Investment (UKTI)

NWDA also manages the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) in the Northwest, which runs from 2007 to 2013. RDPE is jointly funded by the Government and the European Union.

• The NWDA had a budget of £385 million in 2008/09.
• The budget for 2009/10 is £320 million.  

These figures take into account all the changes agreed as part of the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review 2007.

Our Corporate Plan 2008/11 provides full details of how we have allocated our budget to deliver the objectives set out in our Regional Development Strategy. Corporate Plans cover a three-year period which correspond to Comprehensive Spending Reviews.

• Find out more about our key documents
• View the Agency's Transparency Organisational Chart
• View the Agency's Transactions under the Transparancy Initiative (April-November 2010)
• View the Agency's Transactions under the Transparancy Initiative (December 2010)
• View the Agency's Transcations under the Transparency Initiative (January 2011)
• View the Agency's Transations under the Transaparency Initiative (February 2011)
• View the Agency's Transations under the Transparency Initiative (March 2011) 
• View the Agency's Transactions under the Transparency Initiative (April 2011)
• View the Agency's Transactions under the Transparency Initiatve (May 2011)
• View the Agency's Transactions under the Transparency Initiative (June 2011)
• View the Agency's Transactions under the Transparency Initiative (July 2011)
• View the Agency's Transactions under the Transparency Initiative (August 2011)
• View the Agency's Transactions under the Transparency Initiative (September 2011)
• View the Agency's Transactions under the Transparency Initiative (October 2011) 

Policy and Strategy

Strategic Policy Documents

A full list of the Government’s Strategic Policy Documents that are relevant to the NWDA’s Regional Economic Strategy are listed on the BIS website.

NWDA Strategy & Policy

• Supporting Business: Strategy & Policy
• Developing the Workforce: Strategy & Policy
• Building Communities: Strategy & Policy
• Improving Infrastructure: Strategy & Policy
• Enhancing Quality of Life: Strategy & Policy
• Sustainable Development: Strategy & Policy