HC Deb 19 December 2002 vol 396 c967W
Mr. Truswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what use her Department and its agencies make of postcode areas for(a) the collection and publication of data, (b) devising formulae for the distribution of grants and awards and (c) the delivery of services; and when such usages were last reviewed. [87743]

Dr. Howells

The information is as follows:

(a) The Department collects and publishes data which use post codes on:

  1. (i)awards made from National Lottery funds.
  2. (ii)the proportion of households living within a specified distance of a static library.

This followed the introduction of national standards for public libraries in April 2001.

These usages have not been reviewed.

The Department's sole agency, the Royal Parks Agency, does not make use of postcode areas in collection and publication of data.

(b),(c) The Department and the Royal Parks Agency do not use postcode areas in either devising formulae for the distribution of grants and awards or the delivery of services.