§ Dr. MurrisonTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what return on investment has been made by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts since its inception. [155147]
§ Estelle MorrisThe total return on NESTA's investments for Fund A (NESTA's core endowment, invested on their behalf by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt in accordance with NESTA's Financial Directions) between the financial year (FY) 1999 to FY 2003 is £40,166.
The total return on NESTA's investments for Fund B (the Endowments income, invested by NESTA, between FY 1999 and FY 2003 is £2,037.
The following table shows the breakdown for each year.
Final Investment income per audited accounts £000 Income and Investment 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Total Fund A 11,618 11.599 9,006 7,943 40,166 Fund B 161 591 656 630 2,037 Total 11,778 12,190 9,662 8,574 42,204
§ Dr. MurrisonTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was allocated in grants by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts in the last year for which figures are available; and what its operating costs were in the last year for which figures are available. [155148]
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§ Estelle MorrisThe amount of awards given through NESTA's Fellowship, Learning and Invention and Innovation programmes in the last financial year available (2002–03) stands at £7,271,000. Through their other programmes, including Planet Science and Future Lab as well as £157,000 support for competitions and partnerships they spent £4,613,000. Hence a total of £11,884,000 of support was given by NESTA. This does not include £4,669,000 worth of programme support. Together this amounts to £16,553,000, which is the total support NESTA gave to its programmes.
The operating costs for the last year available (2002–03) stands at £1,270,000; this includes a portion
NESTA Project type 1999–2000 (£) Percentage 2000–01 (£) Percentage 2001–02 (£) Science only 188,689 10 690,985 13 3,605,915 Technology only 124,172 6 1,181,851 23 566,732 Arts only 377,554 19 1,324,318 26 1,870,040 Science and Technology 32,000 2 583,592 11 1,006,259 Science and Arts 200,900 10 894,879 17 306,684 Technology and Arts 1,024,747 53 368,395 7 1,054,113 Science, Technology and Arts 0 0 92,343 2 103,919 Total 1,948,062 — 5,138,363 — 8,513,662
NESTA Project type Percentage 2002–03 (£) Percentage Total (£) Percentage Science only 42 3,307,364 28 7,792,953 29 Technology only 7 1,474,244 13 3,348,999 12 Arts only 22 2,666,376 23 6,238,288 23 Science and Technology 12 2,930,514 25 4,552,365 17 Science and Arts 4 317,032 3 1,719,495 6 Technology and Arts 12 772,604 7 3,219,859 12 Science, Technology and Arts 1 260,752 2 457,014 2 Total — 11,728,886 — 27,328,973 —
§ Mr. SwireTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will list projects in East Devon which have received funding from the National Lottery; and what amount was received in each case. [155295]
§ Estelle MorrisThe Department's Lottery Awards database, using information supplied by the distributing bodies shows that 196 Lottery awards to a total of £5,499,026 have been made to the East Devon constituency.
I am arranging for the list to be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.