§ Nick HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what measures her Department has taken to ensure devolution of decision-making for National Lottery funding grants; and if she will make a statement. [83783]
§ Dr. HowellsThe National Lottery Act 1998 gave Lottery distributors powers to delegate funding decisions to a more local level and increasing use is being made of these powers. This Department is currently conducting a review of Lottery funding and published a consultation paper in July seeking views on how Lottery distribution could be improved and how more decisions about Lottery funding could be devolved to a local level. The Department is now looking closely at the responses received.
§ Nick HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the maximum level is of National Lottery grant funding that can be spent by regional bodies; and if she will make a statement. [83749]
§ Dr. HowellsThere is no statutory maximum. The Community Fund has delegated its grant-making powers to regional committees up to a limit of £1 million per grant. The Arts Council of England has delegated decisions on projects under £100,000 to its regional offices. The Heritage Lottery Fund delegates decisions to regional committees for award grants up to £1 million. Awards for All, the cross distributor awards programme supported by the good causes of heritage, arts, sports charities and the New Opportunities Fund has regional committees which make grant decisions up to a maximum award value of £5,000.
§ Nick HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much National Lottery grant funding was spent by(a) region and (b) regional 537W body in the UK in (i) 1998–99, (ii) 1999–2000, (iii) 2000–01 and (iv) 2001–02; and if she will make a statement. [83778]
§ Dr. HowellsThe following table sets out the total amount of Lottery funding awarded to each of the English regions and to Scotland, Wales and Northern
Lottery Award Regional Totals £ Region 1 April 1998 to 31 March 1999 1 April 1999 to 31 March 2000 1 April 2000 to 31 March 2001 1 April 2001 to 31 March 2002 East Midlands 40,805,628 40,888,110 67,376,238 70,266,135 Eastern 51,583,669 48,911,292 53,965,761 64,706,603 London 274,503,707 102,365,945 162,537,615 133,259,638 North East 48,989,336 99,211,191 46,893,035 60,494,311 North West 120,174,482 185,009,505 118,337,247 81,415,407 South East 98,523,440 78,058,630 98,869,911 90,404,696 South West 79,430,052 63,224,137 75,996,544 76,260,409 West Midlands 72,255,440 70,975,613 69,067,417 61,539,810 Yorkshire and Humberside 62,856,278 56,637,836 58,742,145 125,908,578 Northern Ireland 50,125,751 53,397,051 42,202,885 30,769,992 Scotland 104,722,477 122,940,815 87,481,599 136,634,195 Wales 64,110,173 82,798,156 63,164,837 62,103,710
§ Nick HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment she has made of the impact of distributing bodies' strategic plans for National Lottery funding on(a) capital and revenue schemes and (b) variations in regions of the UK; and if she will make a statement. [83782]
§ Dr. HowellsDistributors were asked to indicate in their recently published strategic plans what proportion of overall awards were likely to be capital and what revenue, and to indicate levels of funding to be allocated to country, regional or local level. Distributors are asked to evaluate their achievements against the objectives set out in the plans.
These issues are also addressed in the consultation paper published by the Secretary of State on 29 July, and will be considered as part of the Review of Lottery funding.
§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer given to the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham on 26 November, reference 83302, how many ex-servicemen's welfare organisations in West Sussex applied for National Lottery funding this year. [84767]
§ Mr. CabornThe Community Fund is not aware of any such application.
1998 to 1999 1999 to 2000 2000 to 2001 2001 to 2002 Average percentage of collection items stored in the correct environmental conditions 74 74 76 78 Average percentage of time open 56 59 60 61 Average percentage of collection internet accessible 4 14 22 31
§ Nick HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many(a) children, (b) pensioners and (c) others visited each major national museum funded by her Department (i) 1998–99, (ii) 1999–2000,(iii)2000–01 and (iv) 2001–02; and if she will make a statement. [83740]
538WIreland in the relevant years. This is taken from the Department's awards database which is based on information provided by Lottery distributors.
My Department does not hold information about what proportion of this amount was awarded at a regional level.