§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what policies(a) initiated and (b) managed by her Department since 2001 have had an impact on Pendle; and if she will make a statement. [124099]
§ Mr. CabornThe principal funding to Pendle from policies initiated and managed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport since 2001 is listed as follows.
1. Since 2001, Pendle has received 58 awards from the National Lottery1, with a total value of £3,501,882:
1 Some of the funding will have been allocated under policies which were agreed prior to 2001.
2001 Distributing body Number of grants Total amount awarded (£) Heritage Lottery Fund 2 53,690 Community Fund 6 724,192 Sport England 6 100,861 Arts Council of England 1 16,500 New Opportunities Fund 1 4,600 Total 16 899,843
Body Number of grants Amount given to Pendle January 2001–03 Sport England 1 30,000 (£10,000 per year for 3 years to August 2004) for a Community Sport Development Office Arts Council North West 1 £12,000 per year for 3 years—2002–03, 2003–04 and 2004–05 for an Arts Development Officer Post English Heritage 6 2001–02—£250,941 3 2002–03—£118,501 for various Heritage schemes 3. The Community Fund and the New Opportunities Fund are to deliver £176 million to 77 disadvantaged areas that have not had their fair share of Lottery funds. Pendle has been identified as one of the areas that will benefit under this fair share initiative, with a financial target for 2002–05 of £1,297,447.
4. Creative Partnerships is DCMS' and Arts Council England's flagship programme in the cultural education field. The aim is to give school children aged 5–18 and their teachers the opportunity to explore their creativity by working on sustained projects with creative professionals. In June 2003, Ministers announced that the Creative Partnerships would be extended to 20 new areas. East Lancashire, including Pendle, will be one of the new areas in Phase 3 of the scheme, which will begin in April 2004, with activity in schools from September 2005.