§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will set out with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the Tooting parliamentary constituency, the effect of his Department's policies and actions since 1 May 1997. [149861]
§ Mr. Chris SmithTooting constituency has releived £5,214,274 from the national lottery since 2 May 1997. This includes one award from the millennium festival totalling £40,000.
55WIn addition, the new opportunities fund out of school hours child care programme have made the following grants:
£283,784 to the Trojans scheme—to create a total of 48 breakfast, 274 after school and 299 holiday places for children aged 4–15 years in the Lambeth, Wandsworth and Kingston area. Nine local schools will benefit. A further grant of £34,750 to the Trojans Scheme—to create a new centre combining the Telferscot and Henry Cavendish primary school sites. The project would provide 80 new, integrated after school and holiday places for children aged 5–11 and those in reception class. The schools served would be Telferscot Primary and Henry Cavendish Primary.£23,945 to the Brocklebank Nursery—to create 24 holiday. 24 breakfast and 20 after-school places, for children aged 3—11 in Wandsworth.£14,115 to the A&R after school club—this applicant is a voluntary organisation which currently provides an after school and homework club. It employs four part-time staff. The grant will extend the current scheme to 30 places and set up 15 breakfast places and 30 holiday places. Ten of these places will be for integrated child care and learning. The project will cater for children aged 3–11 in the Streatham area. The schools benefiting are Franciscan, Furzedown, Penworthy Street, Leonard's and St. Anselm's RC Primaries.The new opportunities fund has also awarded —900,100 to the Tooting healthy living initiative—this is a new project that has six distinct activity areas aimed at targeting health inequalities in the area with a particular focus on the health of ethnic minorities. The fund's out of school hours learning programme has awarded £11,000 to the Wandle primary school—this will make a study centre available to all students to help them complete their homework as well as offering a programme of activities.
Twenty five millennium award winners have been identified from Tooting and between them they have received grants totalling £93,278.
Music for Youth, Wandsworth has received £25,350 from the National Foundation for Youth Music Awards Scheme. This grant will enable those young people outside mainstream education to get involved in the national festival in rock and pop music by bringing teachers, students, organisations and musicians together to work towards creating a validated programme of learning in this sector of music. As part of the national festival of music for youth in July 2001, a rock and pop forum will be created, including workshops and performances. Groups will be selected from throughout the UK.
Wandsworth Library Authority (which includes Tooting libraries) received an award of £50,000 from the DCMS/Wolfson public libraries challenge fund's 1997–98 programme to support ICT projects in libraries. It is not possible to say precisely what proportion of funding was spent in the Tooting constituency.
From 1 April 1999, Tooting residents under 16 were able to benefit from free admission to the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Imperial War Museum, HMS Belfast, the Cabinet War Rooms, the Natural Maritime Museum and the Museum of London. From 1 April 2000, Tooting residents over 60 were able to gain free admission to most of those.
Ernest Bevin school in Tooting was awarded specialist sport college status jointly with Southfield community college—both in Wandsworth local education authority.
56WThere are of course other initiatives in the wider context of Greater London which may have an effect on the Tooting constituency. These include:
Under the Space for Sport and Arts (SSA) scheme, a £130 million capital programme made up of £75 million from the Capital Modernisation Fund and £55 million from Sport England, the Arts Council of England and the third Round of New Opportunities Fund, a number of local education authorities in Greater London have been allocated funding towards providing improved facilities for sport and arts in primary schools which can also be used by the wider community. There is therefore a potential inward investment of up £16.75 million in the London region under this programme.Tooting residents will benefit from equipment to be purchased by the New Opportunities Fund Cancer programme. Across the whole of the London region, over £12 million will fund: 11 linear accelerators; four MRI scanners; ten trailers for breast screening equipment; three ultrasound machines for breast screening; and 30 pieces of x-ray breast screening equipment.London Arts has received an additional £981,583 from the Arts Council this year to support arts and cultural activity across the region.Information on the national lottery is in accordance with the information supplied to the Department by the lottery distributors for the national lottery awards database.