§ 23. Mike GapesTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what plans she has to reform the criteria for distributing national lottery funding. [2445]
§ Mr. CabornThe criteria that are used for determining awards from national lottery funds are a matter for the lottery distributors. The criteria vary from distributor to52W distributor and from funding programme to funding programme. They are based on financial and policy directions which the Government issued to lottery distributors, and also on distributors' own policies and strategic plans.
§ Mr. Peter AinsworthTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will list those major millennium projects which have applied for additional national lottery funding, indicating the sum requested, the reasons given for this request and the amount of extra funding allocated in each case. [71]
§ Tessa Jowell[holding answer 25 June 2001]This is a matter for the Millennium Commission. I will write to the hon. Member in my capacity as chairman of the Commission, and place copies of my reply in the Libraries of both Houses.