§ Mr. MossTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much money from the National Lottery
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Month Increase/Reduction October +44 November +20 December +62 Number of jobs at end of December 1998: 3939
Reduction over 12 month period: 496
Parliamentary Question 70073
The ACE programme will be phased out during 1999 and its replacement, Worktrain, will become operational in August 1999. Transitional arrangements will be made for those remaining in ACE beyond July 1999.
Parliamentary Question 70074
Details of the number of participants by age group in the ACE programme were not collected prior to the introduction of New Deal.
Since early 1998, approximately 25 per cent. of ACE participants were aged between 18 and 24. Following the introduction of the New Deal for 18–24 year olds, recruitment of people in this age group into ACE was discontinued. Numbers have now reduced to 194 females and 189 males. I expect that by April 1999 there will be no 18 to 24 year olds participating in ACE.
At the end of December 1998 there were 2,111 females and 1,344 males (total 3,455) in the 25+ age group participating in the ACE programme.
Parliamentary Question 70075
As I explained in my answer to question 70074, prior to the introduction of New Deal, information on the age of ACE participants was not collected. However on the assumption that approximately 25 per cent. of participants were in the 18–24 years group, (as was the situation whenever New Deal was introduced) and 7.1 per cent. were over 25 years, then the following estimates apply:
Distribution Fund has been paid to (a) environmental, (b) educational, (c) health and (d) tourism programmes in Northern Ireland in each of the past five years. [70100]
§ Mr. BanksI have been asked to reply.
To date the Lottery distributing bodies have made 1,634 awards to the value of £497 million in Northern Ireland. The table shows a breakdown by Good Cause. Many of these projects are likely to contribute to the environment, health, education and tourism of Northern Ireland but these cannot be separately identified in the way requested.
The National Lottery Act 1998 created a new good cause allowing Lottery money to fund innovative projects in health, education and the environment. These initiatives will be run by a new distributor, the New Opportunities Fund (NOF). NOF has begun to invite applications and will be making its first awards this spring.
Details of Lottery awards for Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK are listed on the Department for Culture, Media and Sports website at www.lottery.culture.gov.uk.
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£ Distributing body Number of awards Value of awards Arts Council for Northern Ireland 426 27,142,851 Sports Council for Northern Ireland 406 30,455,505 National Lottery Charities Board 672 38,353,915 Heritage Lottery Fund 93 27,168,986 Millennium Commission 37 374,722,232 Total 1,634 497,843,489