HC Deb 31 January 2000 vol 343 c474W
17. Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what were the total public subsidies paid to(a) opera, (b) live theatre and (c) poetry in the last financial year. [105953]

Mr. Alan Howarth

During the last financial year, opera received around £35 million in grant-in-aid from the Arts Council of England, live theatre £27 million and literature £1.5 million, of which poetry received nearly 70 per cent. (or £1 million).