§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list by constituency the amount spent on lottery tickets and the number of lottery millionaires. [107066]
§ Kate HoeyI have placed a table showing the amount spent on National Lottery tickets by constituency for the first five years of the National Lottery in the Libraries of the House.
Figures for the number of Lottery millionaires by constituency are not available.
§ Mr. AshdownTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many applications for National Lottery grants have been made by organisations in the Yeovil constituency over the last five years; how many of these have been accepted; and if he will make a statement. [106743]
§ Kate HoeyThe table shows the number of applications and awards for each of the National Lottery distributing bodies to organisations in the Yeovil constituency, based on information provided by the National Lottery distributing bodies.
Distributing body Number of applications received Number of awards made Arts Council of England 25 15 Heritage Lottery Fund 15 3 Film Council 0 0 Millennium Commission 1— 4 National Lottery Charities Board 163 68 New Opportunities Fund 0 20 Sport England 15 8 UK Sport 0 0 1 Not known. 2 The New Opportunities Fund has allocated funding to schools in the Somerset County Council, amounting to £1,552,054, under its programme for ICT (information and communications technology) training for teachers and school librarians. In addition, under its programme for ICT training for public library staff, Somerset County Council will receive the entitlement of £135,725. Funding is allocated by Local Education Authority/Library Authority and it is not possible at present to provide a breakdown by parliamentary constituency.
§ Gillian MerronTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will publish tables for the(a) sales of national lottery tickets in and (b) awards from the lottery to (i) parliamentary constituencies, (ii) counties and (iii) regions ranked in descending order by amount in each case. [106843]
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§ Kate Hoey[holding answer 25 January 2000]: I have placed tables showing National Lottery awards by constituency, county, and region by descending order of amount; and tables showing ticket sales by constituency and by region, by descending order of amount, in the Libraries of the House. Ticket sales by county are not available.
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many National Lottery grants, indicating the amounts involved, have been allocated to projects in London via(a) national companies, (b) national institutions and (c) local London community groups. [106808]
§ Kate HoeyAccording to my Department's National Lottery awards database, there have been 5596 grants to organisations based in London since the National Lottery began, with a total value of £2,263,714,761. Of these, 4,650 grants, with a total value of £1,230,738,680, have been classified by the National Lottery distributors as local awards; the remaining 946 awards, with a total value of £1,032,976,081, have been classified as non-local.
§ Mr. CoakerTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the value of lottery funds received by organisations in the Gedling constituency; and if he will make a statement. [106831]
§ Kate Hoey[holding answer 25 January 2000]: According to my Department's National Lottery awards database (which uses information supplied by the National Lottery distributing bodies) there have been 50 awards to organisations based in the Gedling constituency, totalling £1,295,563.
Dr. Tony WrightTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list, in each constituency the(a) sales of National Lottery tickets and (b) allocation of Lottery funding ranked in order of (i) number of tickets sold and (ii) value of Lottery funding, in each of the first five years of the Lottery's operation. [106150]
§ Kate HoeyI have placed a table showing Lottery awards by constituency, where known, for each year from 1995 (the first year in which awards were made) to 1999 in the Libraries of the House. The table is taken from my Department's National Lottery awards database, using information provided by the National Lottery distributing bodies. It allocates awards to constituencies according to the applicant's post code.
I have also placed a table showing total ticket sales to 13 November 1999 in the Libraries of the House. Annual breakdown of these data is not available.