Dear Sir or Madam

This request under the FOI Act is in relation to digital sector business funding made my One North East for two current programmes.

I would be grateful if you could provide the following information in relation to funding provided to the Codeworks Digital Evaluation Vehicle (DEV) programme and the Difference Engine programme for the financial years 2009/10 and 2010/11:

- The name of the applicant applying for the funding
- Amount of funding provided
- The legal entity that the funding has been provided to
- The target number of businesses to receive direct support as a result of the funding

For the Codeworks Digital Evaluation Vehicle (DEV) programme I would be grateful if you could provide the following information:

- Confirmation that business
es will receive capital investment of around £20k (as per press release http://www.onenortheast.co.uk/page/news/...) against a matched investment from the business of around £10k
- What form does the match investment from the business have to be in, eg capital, in kind etc.
- How is the remainder of the £1.9m for this programme going to be used in providing direct support for eligible target number of businesses
- Confirmation that the remainder of the £1.9m is not used for funding activities not directly relating to this programme

For the Difference Engine programme I would be grateful if you could provide the following information:

- Who will be the legal entitiy(ies) providing the £20k investment capital and holding the 8% shareholding in private businesses (http://www.thedifferenceengine.eu/about-...)
- How specifically will returns on these investments be used and can you provide detail relating to planned usage

Yours Faithfully,

James Burke

Dear Jaymes Glew,

Many thanks for the quick reply.

The following questions, as included in the original request, do not appear to have been answered.

For the Difference Engine programme I would be grateful if you
could provide the following information:

- Who will be the legal entitiy(ies) providing the £20k investment
capital and holding the 8% shareholding in private businesses
(http://www.thedifferenceengine.eu/about-...)
- How specifically will returns on these investments be used and
can you provide detail relating to planned usage

Yours sincerely,

James Burke

Dear Jaymes Glew,

Further to request by Nicola Barnett via email 10th May 2010 for clarification on FOI requests that are long overdue and not complete:

For the Difference Engine programme I would be grateful if you could provide the following information:

- Who will be the legal entitiy(ies) providing the £20k investment capital and holding the 8% shareholding in private businesses
- How specifically will returns on these investments be used and can you provide detail relating to planned usage - this is not clear in the business case provided and there does not appear to be an SLA agreed as yet (contrary to the business case link to business case) see http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/th... and http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/th...

Business Case (NE00525) received 22 Feb 2010 - http://www.scribd.com/doc/31191462/NE005...

Yours sincerely,

James Burke