§ Mr. SandersTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her estimate is of the total cost to her Department of the implementation of the EnglandNet project. [124770]
§ Mr. CabornThe total cost of the EnglandNet project is as follows:
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£ 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 Total DCMS grant-in-aid funding via ETC/ Visit Britain 769,000 265,000 852,000 1,886,000 Capital Modernisation Fund 50,000 550,000 0 600,000 Invest to Save Fund 0 1,328,000 2,077,000 3,405,000 Total all funding 819,000 2,143,000 2,929,000 5,891,000 In addition, £300.000 from the capital modernisation fund has been spent to enable tourist information centres to get connected to the internet, and thereby be able to use the extranet provided by EnglandNet, and £150,000 from the invest to save budget has been used to support work on e-business awareness and training for tourism businesses in rural areas.