§ Mr. MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the budgeted 339W 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 SmithThe 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