§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will publish the monetary value of 849W National Lottery awards made in (a) rural and (b) urban areas in each of the years since the National Lottery was established. [110508]
§ Kate Hoey[holding answer 17 February 2000]: The Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions classifies rural areas as those local authorities where there is no settlement greater than 35,000. The table shows the monetary value of National Lottery awards made to local authorities in Great Britain in rural and other areas (that is Small Towns, Large Towns, Free Standing Cities, Conurbations and London) in each of the years since the National Lottery was established. This information is taken from the National Lottery Awards database which uses information supplied by the Lottery distributing bodies. The totals exclude Lottery awards not attributed by the distributing bodies to a particular local authority.
£ Amount awarded to rural areas Amount awarded to non-rural areas 1995 131,759,797 822,929,475 1996 272,702,182 1,352,526,177 1997 204,161,295 2,116,096,616 1998 164,005,639 1,045,100,364 1999 162,866,596 703,373,321
§ Mr. GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the number of grants made from the National Lottery was in(a) urban areas and (b) rural areas between 1 May 1997 and 31 December 1999. [110642]
§ Kate Hoey[holding answer 17 February 2000]: The Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions classifies rural areas as those local authorities where there is no settlement greater than 35,000. The total number of awards to local authorities in rural areas in Great Britain between 1 May 1997 and 31 December 1999, was 11,571. The number of awards to local authorities in other areas in Great Britain, (that is Small Towns, Large Towns, Free Standing Cities, Conurbations and London) between 1 May 1997 and 31 December
£ 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 UK Sport—World Class1 Performance Programme 21,839,545 17,129,000 218,000,000 Sport England—World Class Performance Programme 27,366,285 17,330,962 3— Sport Scotland—Talented Athlete Programme 1,694,338 887,703 3— Sport Scotland—Scotland Junior Groups 150,349 383,151 3— Sports Council for Wales—Elite Cymru4 634,781 570,764 2750,000 Sports Council for Northern Ireland—Development Of Talented Individuals Programme 422,584 348,306 3— 1 UK Sport became a Lottery distributor in its own right from 1 July 1999. Before this time the Home Country Sports Councils were jointly responsible for funding World Class Performance on the basis of recommendations and advice of the UK Sports Council. 2 Provisional figure. 3 Information unavailable. 4 The figure from Elite Cymru includes funding towards hosting major events. The following activities have received support to date under the world class performance programme which is administered by sport England and uk sport:
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- Athletics
- Disability Athlctics
- Badminton
- Wheelchair Basketball
1999, was 26,198. This information is taken from the National Lottery Awards database which uses information supplied by the Lottery distributing bodies.
§ Mr. GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the average size of grant was from the National Lottery in(a) urban areas and (b) rural areas between 1 May 1997 and 31 December 1999. [110643]
§ Kate Hoey[holding answer 17 February 2000]: The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions classifies rural areas as those local authorities where there is no settlement greater than 35,000. The average size of award to local authorities in rural areas in Great Britain between 1 May 1997 and 31 December 1999, was £43,059. The average size of award to local authorities in other areas in Great Britain, (that is Small Towns, Large Towns, Free Standing Cities, Conurbations and London), between 1 May 1997 and 31 December 1999, was £115,406. This information is taken from the National Lottery Awards database which uses information supplied by the distributing bodies.