§ Chris RuaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the total amount of Lottery grants given to(a) the richest 100 wards in the UK and (b) the poorest 100 wards in the UK was from the inception of the Lottery to 1 May 1997 and from 2 May 1997 to date. [144837]
§ Estelle MorrisThe information requested is being placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
The information cannot be provided in the exact format requested. Changes to ward boundaries in some of these wards make such comparisons impossible. Where boundaries have remained constant, the information requested is shown in the tables which are produced from data provided by the Lottery distributors. The tables are based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation for England only—no UK wide measure is available.