§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will list the schemes and initiatives sponsored by her Department and its agencies which are not the subject of national roll out, showing(a) the authorities or areas covered by the scheme and (b) the budget of the scheme in the last year for which information is available. [75667]
§ Dr. HowellsThe following schemes and initiatives are sponsored by my Department in partnership with other funding bodies.
Space for Sports and Arts Programme (SSA)
Space for Sports and Arts Programme (SSA), is a partnership between traditional public expenditure of £75 million from the Capital Modernisation Fund and £55 million from the three Lottery distributors: New Opportunities Fund (£25 million), Sport England (£25 million) and Arts Council of England (£5 million).
The SSA programme is being rolled out in 65 local authorities in deprived areas. The budget for the programme is £130million from the beginning of 2000 to March 2004, which is the life of the programme. Approximately 297 projects are planned in the 65 local authorities. The Local Education Authorities (LEAs) invited to bid were:
Barking and Dagenham, Barnsley, Bedfordshire, Birmingham, Blackburn with Darwen, Bradford, Brent, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, City of Nottingham, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derby City, Derbyshire, Doncaster, Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Gateshead. Greenwich, Hackney, Hartlepool, Islington, Kent, Kingston-upon-Hull, Knowsley, Lambeth, Lancashire, Leeds, Leicester City, Lewisham, Liverpool, Luton, Manchester, Medway, Middlesbrough, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Newham, Norfolk, North Somerset, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Redcar and Cleveland, Rochdale, Rotherham, Salford, Sandwell, Sheffield, Slough, Somerset, South Tyneside, Southwark, St Helens, Stockton-on-Tees, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Tower Hamlets, Trafford, Walsall, Wirral, Wolverhampton.Portable Antiquities Scheme
The Portable Antiquities Scheme was established in 1997 to encourage members of the public to report all finds of archaeological objects. Since Autumn 1997 DCMS has been funding six pilot schemes to promote voluntary reporting of all archaeological finds. These pilots were established in 556W
Kent, Norfolk, North Lincolnshire, North West (Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cumbria) West Midlands and Yorks. A further six pilots have been funded for three years by Heritage Lottery Fund since Spring 1999. These pilots were established in Dorset & Somerset, Hampshire, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Wales, and in London.A bid for a three-year funding for a national network of 41 posts at a cost of £1.5 million a year from April 2003 was approved by the Heritage Lottery Fund in May. This bid has 63 national and local partners each of whom is contributing 10 per cent. towards the cost.
In 2002–2003 the Department is providing £411,000 to support the current pilot schemes until the new funding comes on line.
The following schemes and initiatives are by public bodies sponsored by DCMS. These are not the subject of national roll out.
Splash Extra
This was a joint DCMS/Youth Justice Board programme of summer activities targeted on those 9–17 year olds identified as most at risk of offending in the areas covered across Government. A list of those areas covered will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses. Resourced by the New Opportunities Fund, and providing almost 300 estate-based schemes across England, Splash Extra established a menu of high quality sports, arts and personal development activities.
The budget was £8.5 million for the last financial year.