HC Deb 01 April 2003 vol 402 cc661-5W
Mr. Whittingdale

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) if he will place in the Library the business case for merging the Community Fund and the New Opportunities Fund; [105017]

(2) what estimate she has made of the administrative savings as a result of merging the Community Fund and the New Opportunities Fund. [105018]

Tessa Jowell

Merging the two bodies is expected to achieve administrative savings and allow better co-ordination of funding. The case for merger will be set out in a White Paper later this year following consultation with the voluntary sector.

Bob Spink

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which parliamentary constituencies received less than(a) half and (b) a quarter of the median for lottery grant funding in the year for which latest figures are available. [105693]

Mr. Caborn

The following list, which is based upon information supplied to us by the distributing bodies for the National Lottery awards database, shows (in alphabetical order) parliamentary constituencies which have received less than half and a quarter of the median for Lottery grant funding for the period 1 March 2002 to 28 February 2003.

UK Constituencies less than.½ median

  • Aldridge-Brownhills
  • Banff & Buchan
  • Batley and Spen
  • Blackburn
  • Blaydon
  • Bosworth
  • Bracknell
  • Bristol South
  • Buckingham
  • Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley
  • Carshalton and Wallington
  • Chesham and Amersham
  • Cleethorpes
    • 662W
  • Clydebank & Milngavie
  • Colne Valley
  • Congleton
  • Coventry North West
  • Crawley
  • Crosby
  • Croydon South
  • Cunninghame South
  • Dagenham
  • Dartford
  • Denton and Reddish
  • Derby North
  • Dewsbury
  • Dudley South
  • Dundee East
  • Dunfermline East
  • Ealing North
  • East Devon
  • East Lothian
  • East Surrey
  • Enfield, Southgate
  • Epping Forest
  • Esher and Walton
  • Fylde
  • Glasgow Baillieston
  • Glasgow Pollok
  • Glasgow Springburn
  • Gravesham
  • Guildford
  • Halesowen and Rowley Regis
  • Hamilton South
  • Harrogate and Knaresborough
  • Hazel Grove
  • Henley
  • Hyndburn
  • Leeds North East
  • Lewisham East
  • Lichfield
  • Liverpool, Garston
  • Liverpool, West Derby
  • Loughborough
  • Ludlow
  • Macclesfield
  • Maidenhead
  • Makerfield
  • Mid Dorset and North Poole
  • Mid Sussex
  • Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
  • Milton Keynes South West
  • Mole Valley
  • Normanton
  • North Dorset
  • North East Milton Keynes
  • North Swindon
  • North Tayside
  • North Wiltshire
  • Orpington
  • Paisley South
  • Perth
    • 663W
  • Portsmouth North
  • Rochford and Southend East
  • Romsey
  • Runnymede and Weybridge
  • Scunthorpe
  • Sheffield, Hallam
  • Sheffield, Heeley
  • Sheffield, Hillsborough
  • Sittingbourne and Sheppey
  • Solihull
  • South Ribble
  • South Staffordshire
  • South West Bedfordshire
  • South West Hertfordshire
  • Southend West
  • Stone
  • Stroud
  • Surrey Heath
  • Tamworth
  • Tatton
  • Tewkesbury
  • Tonbridge and Malling
  • Uxbridge
  • Vale of Glamorgan
  • Wimbledon
  • Wokingham

UK constituencies: less than ¼ median

  • Aberdeen South
  • Altrincham and Sale West
  • Alyn and Deeside
  • Basingstoke
  • Billericay
  • Birmingham, Erdington
  • Birmingham, Hall Green
  • Birmingham, Hodge Hill
  • Birmingham, Northfield
  • Birmingham, Yardley
  • Blaby
  • Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
  • Brent North
  • Bury South
  • Cheadle
  • Chingford and Woodford Green
  • Christchurch
  • Corby
  • Don Valley
  • East Hampshire
  • East Yorkshire
  • Edinburgh West
    • 664W
  • Elmet
  • Folkestone and Hythe
  • Gedling
  • Gillingham
  • Glasgow Anniesland
  • Grantham and Stamford
  • Harlow
  • Harrow West
  • Havant
  • Hemel Hempstead
  • Hornchurch
  • Horsham
  • Houghton and Washington East
  • Morley and Rothwell
  • Newport East
  • North East Cambridgeshire
  • North East Derbyshire
  • North Warwickshire
  • North West Cambridgeshire
  • North West Hampshire
  • Northampton North
  • Ochil
  • Rayleigh
  • Reading West
  • Redditch
  • Romford
  • Ruislip-Northwood
  • Saffron Walden
  • Southport
  • Spelthorne
  • Stoke-on-Trent North
  • Stoke-on-Trent South
  • Strathkelvin and Bearsden
  • Sutton Coldfield
  • Upminster
  • Wellingborough
  • Wells
  • West Renfrewshire
  • West Suffolk
  • Wirral West
  • Worsley

Bob Spink

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) which 20 parliamentary constituencies made the greatest number of applications for lottery funding in the last year for which statistics are available; [106052]

(2) if she will list for the National Lottery Awards For All scheme (a) the average number of applications per constituency, (b) the average number of applications for each Eastern Area constituency and (c) the average number of applications for Castle Point, in each of the last three years for which statistics are held; [106050]

(3) what the average number of applications for lottery grants for (a) all constituencies, (b) Eastern Area constituencies and (c) Castle Point was in the last year for which statistics exist. [106053]

Mr. Caborn

Comprehensive information on applications for lottery grants is not centrally held at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Bob Spink

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will set out(a) the average grant given for all constituencies, (b) the average grant given for eastern area constituencies and (c) the average grant given for Castle Point under the National Lottery Awards For All scheme in each of the last three years for which statistics are held. [106051]

Mr. Caborn

The following table, which is based upon information supplied to us by the distributing bodies for the National Lottery awards database, sets out the average grant given for all constituencies1, the average grant given for Eastern Area constituencies2 and the average award to Castle Point under the National Lottery Awards For All scheme over the last three years.

1 March 2000 to 28 February 2001 1 March 2001 to 28 February 2002 1 March 2002 to 28 February 2003
Average grant given for all UK constituencies 3,190.91 3,516.44 3,589.95
Average grant given for eastern area constituencies 2,985.25 3,485.96 3,361.03
Average grant given for Castle Point 3,089.17 3,084.10 3,202.17

1 This has been calculated by taking the average grant for each UK constituency, and then identifying the median average of those averages.

2 We have defined the eastern area as the eastern region. Since regions are defined by local authorities not constituencies some constituencies may cross the regional boundary. This means that some awards will have been included because they are within a constituency, though the postcode may fall outside the region.

Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the policy of Sport England is on paying instalments of lottery grants directly to project contractors rather than via project trustees of the charities involved. [106582]

Mr. Caborn

As a Lottery award is a legally binding contract between Sport England and the applicant organisation, it is Sport England's policy to make payments only to the applicant.