HC Deb 18 January 2001 vol 361 cc338-9W
Mr. Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the budgeted value of the awards made in 2000–01 in each Government Office region by (a) Sport England and (b) the Arts Council. [144278]

Mr. Chris Smith

The information is in the table. For Sport England the figure for each region covers the lottery grants awarded since April 2000 to date, regional specific grant-in-aid, plus expenditure on the national sports centres. For the Arts Council for England the figure represents the amount of lottery funding delegated to the regional arts boards and the amount of grant-in-aid given to each regional arts board.

£
Sport England Arts Council for England
East of England 6,082,718 9,582,972
East Midlands 7,098,084 11,319,932
London 5,824,227 50,122,428
North East 2,290,311 12,021,0821
North West 10,114,925 24,914,128
South East 8,090,819 8,009,364
Southern2 n/a 14,455,863
South West 10,365,256 11,415,644
West Midlands 8,801,880 16,636,080
Yorkshire 5,151,847 12,500,978
1 Northern Arts covers the North East Government Office Region plus Cumbria which is in the North West Government Office Region
2 Most of the Southern Arts Board are in the Government Office South East region

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