§ Mr. VazTo ask the Minister for the Arts hove much the Arts Council has spent on(a) Afro-Caribbean and Asian arts and (b) other ethnic minorities in each financial year since its ethnic minority action plan was launched; and what percentage of its total budget this represents in each year.
§ Mr. LuceThe Arts Council's spending on ethnic minority arts was £960,166 in 1986–87 and £1,024,178 in 1987–88.
This figure covers only the council's direct expenditure in England and does not include expenditure by the 261W regional arts associations, Scottish and Welsh Arts Council programmes, activities promoted by client organisations of the Arts Council and visiting arts expenditure, in respect of which an ethnic breakdown is not held centrally.
A report on ethnic minority arts will be published by the council later this year.
§ Mr. VazTo ask the Minister for the Arts if he will list in theOfficial Report all the individuals and organisations which benefited from the Arts Council's expenditure on (a) Afro-Caribbean Arts and (b) other ethnic minorities, and the sums by which they benefited in the years 1986–87 and 1987–88.
§ Mr. LuceThe information requested as it relates to the Arts Council's direct expenditure in England, is as follows:
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Arts Council expenditure on ethnic minority arts 1986–87 to 1987–88 £ Music 1986–87—Afro-Caribbean Sounds of Africa 5,500 WOMAD 1,500 Dade Krama 3,300 Wilf Walker Entertainments 6,000 National Steel Band Festival 7,000 23,300 1987–88—Afro-Caribbean Black Music Fair 15,000 National Steel Band Festival 20,000 Sunsplash 5,000 Dade Krama 7,000 Wilf Walker Entertainments 10,000 L & H Promotions 2,500 Black Music Archives 2,500 Sunsplash 3,500 Arts Worldwide (African Tour) 2,500 Triple Earth 3,500 Caribbean Year 2,500 Training awards 10,000 84,000 1986–87—Asian Ceylon Bloomsbury 1,500 Sanskritik Festival 42,500 UK. University Circuit 900 Alpana Sengupta 3,800 Arts Worldwide 12,000 60,700 1987–88—Asian Sanskritik Festival 41,200 Arts Worldwide 15,000 Bhaven 900 One World 6,850 East West Musical Encounter 2,000 Arts Worldwide 5,360 Arts Worldwide 4,000 Recordings 10,000 85,310 Film 1986–87—Afro-Caribbean Aubrey Williams 36,000 H. Wilson 1,000 Carol Enahoro 614 Circles 1,500 263W
£ 39,114 1987–88—Afro-Caribbean Association for Curriculum Development 3,000 Carol Enahoro 1,500 Keith Piper 650 Patricia Diaz and M. Mcintosh 4,500 9,650 1986–87—Asian No awards were made in this financial year 1987–88—Asian Parminder Vir and Julian Henriques 40,000 Pratiba Parmar 3,000 Alia Syed 500 43,500 Literature 1986–87—Afro-Caribbean Grace Nichols 5,000 1986–87—Asian Mahmood Jamal 5,000 Balraj Khanna 5,000 10,000 Combined arts 1986–87—Afro-Caribbean Carnival and Arts Committee 98,000 1987–88—Afro-Caribbean Carnival and Arts Committee 100,000 Art 1986–87—Afro-Caribbean Sonia Boyce 3,000 Aubrey Williams 3,500 Demax: Eddie Chambers 5,760 Artists Maps 416 Daylight Club 463 Sculpture in the City 320 13,459 1987–88—Afro-Caribbean Artangel Trust 3,000 Rochdale Gallery 2,700 Chisenhale 4,758 Paddington Printshop 7,000 Camden Press 3,960 Veronica Ryan 10,000 31,418 1986–87—Asian Saleem Arif 2,000 Women Sculptors 520 2,520 1987–88—Asian Third Text 4,000 Bazaar 10,000 Fires Publishing 1,600 15,600 Photography 1986–87—Afro-Caribbean Armet Francis 5,000 264W
£ 1987–88—Afro-Caribbean Black Women & Photography 5,000 Association of Black Photographers 8,000 13,000 Touring—Contemporary Music Network 1986–87—Asian Sumul Nori 28,827 1987–88—Asian Peshkar 50,550 Dance 1986–87—Afro-Caribbean Black Dance Development Trust 14,000 Phoenix 65,000 Adinkra 15,000 Adzido 12,500 Delado 7,500 Irie 3,000 Kokuma 7,500 125,000 1987–88—Afro-Caribbean Kokuma 24,700 Adzido 17,500 Beach Danel Development Trust 16,500 IDJ 5,000 Delado 12,500 Irie 5,000 81,200 1986–87—Asian Suraya Hilal 2,500 Shobana Jeyasingh 8,000 Alpana Sengupta 8,500 Academy of Indian Dance 6,000 Natya Padam 4,000 Nahid Siddiqui 2,000 31,000 1987–88—Asian Nahid Siddiqui 3,500 Pratap Pawar 5,000 Shobana Jeyasingh 5,000 Pushkala Gopal and Unnikrishnan 6,000 Natya Padam 1,000 A Fiercer Kind of Being 4,000 24,500 Drama 1986–87—Afro-Caribbean Black Theatre Co-op 95,300 Temba 126,750 Black Theatre Workshop 14,000 Bow Gamelan Ensemble 4,744 Carib Theatre 12,000 Double Edge 20,000 L'Ouverture Theatre Trust 18,990 Talawa 33,000 Theatre of Black Women 26,200 Umoja 14,730 365,714 1987–88—Afro-Caribbean Black Theatre Co-op 104,500 Temba 100,000 Theatre of Black Women 10,000
£ Talawa 31,700 Gbakanda Afrikan Tiata 4,100 Staunch 26,700 277,000 1986–87—Asian British Asian Theatre 8,000 Eastern Actors Studio 2,530 Tara Arts 89,301 99,831 1987–88—Asian British Asian Theatre 30,000 Eastern Actors' Studio 8,000 Tara Arts 105,500 143,500 Theatre Writing Schemes 1986–87—Afro-Caribbean Focof Novo Ltd. 2,400 L'Ouverture Theatre Trust 800 Roots Theatre Company 951 Sickle Cell Clinic 750 Temba 4,800 9,701 1987–88—Afro-Caribbean Action Transport 1,500 Caesar, Burt 2,000 Carib Theatre Co. 1,200 Good Co. 900 Ikoli, Tunde 2,400 Oval Womens Writers W/Shop 1,200 ReSisters Theatre Co. 950 Royal Court 2,400 Second Wave 600 Strange Fruit Theatre Co. 1,500 Worcester Arts W/Shop 500 15,150 1986–87—Asian Asian Cooperative Theatre 1,000 1987–88—Asian Alrawi, Karim 2,400 Dance Umbrella 500 Raif, Ayshe 2,400 Yorkshire Womens Theatre Co. 500 5,800 Planning 1986–87 Minorities Arts Advisory Service 30,000 Training Bursaries 12,000 42,000 1987–88 Minorities Arts Advisory Service 44,000