EU Spending in the UK

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Need a new weapon in your fierce online arguments with people who feel differently about Brexit to you?

The MyEU website might just be it, assuming you're a Remainer arguing with a Leaver, and not vice-versa.

The site lets you plug in a postcode (yours, theirs, the Queen's...) and find out what the EU's £5bn a year investment in the UK has got you and your neighbours.

The blue flags tell you about a project that the EU contributed to, and how much. The red ones are hospitals, showing how many staff and beds come from the EU.

It's pretty sobering – not only how much we've benefited from our membership, but how wrecked our hospitals might be if Brexit goes ahead. Who's going to replace the 198 NHS nurses at Nottingham University Hospital, for instance?

The website is open source and made by four named Londoners, but it's unsurprisingly backed by pro-Remain groups, namely Tech For UK and Best For Britain. It encourages you to contact your MP about Brexit with handy links, and you can also add EU projects that aren't on the map yet.

Data Sources

• European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) 2014-2020. ESIF includes money from the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). We got this data from separate datasets for:

• England, from Gov.uk (Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.)

• Scotland, from Gov.scot (Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.)

• Wales from Gov.wales (Welsh Governement © Crown copyright 2018 licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.)

• Northern Ireland from Department for the Economy NI (Department for the Economy © Crown copyright 2018 licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.).

• All funding direct from the EU budget centrally administered by the Commission from 2017 and 2016 from the Financial Transparency system (c) European Union, 1995-2018

• Creative Europe funding 2014-2020, which is the EU's programme for support for cultural and audiovisual funding. (c) European Union, 1995-2018

• Erasmus + funding 2007-2018, which is the EU's programme for support for young people. (c) European Union, 1995-2018

• Projects funded by the European Union under the seventh framework programme for research and technological development (FP7) from 2007 to 2013 andHorizon 2020 from 2014 to 2020 from the EU Open data portal. (c) European Union, 1995-2018

• Common Agricultural Policy Funding data from the Detail Data Portal for 2014 and 2015 and from DEFRA for 2016 and 2017 (both licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.). This includes the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).

• Postcode data from FreeMapTools . Postcode data contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2017, contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2017 and contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2017

• Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) from Digital Science, shared under the Creative Commons Public Domain 1.0 International licence .

• NHS staffing data are from NHS Digital's HCHS staff by staff group, nationality and organisation, September 2017 and June 2018 dataset from June 2018, shared under the Open Government License.

• Interreg North-West Europe Programme data are from the Interreg NWE list of beneficiaries, (c) NWE Secretariat.

• LIFE Programme data are (c) European Union, 1995–2018.