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He said the RDA "has done a huge amount of good" in the North East and was concerned about its abolition.
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Yorkshire Forward, the Leeds-based RDA, finished up with a budget approaching three quarters of a billion pounds and a staff running into hundreds.
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But the lack of an RDA puts north-east England, as the starkest example, at a substantial disadvantage, and not least against its northern neighbour.
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According to the BBC's Freedom of Information request to Cornwall Council, the RDA insisted that the council spent the money from it on economic development.
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RDA's difficulties are probably more serious than a flabby cost base.
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The science park, which has been 20 years in the making, is a joint project between the South West RDA, three Bristol and Bath universities and developer Quantum.
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The Regional Development Agencies (RDA) are being abolished and will be replaced by the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) which will support the growth of the private sector in England.
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The unofficial RDA for vitamin D as issued by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2010 is 600 ius for those under 70, 800 ius for those over 80.
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Notable successes to come out of its prior funds include SouFun Holdings, HangTing, China Kanghui, RDA Microelectronics and Dang Dang, which all went public last year.
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