§ Nick HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the average length of time was from the submission of a Lottery funding hid to(a) receipt of that application and (b) receipt of funding by distribution body in each of the last 10 years. [121629]
§ Estelle MorrisInformation on the time taken by Lottery distributors to acknowledge applications is not available centrally. Each distributor is required to have a performance indicator on the average time taken to process applications, but the indicator can be formulated differently by individual distributors. The timing of the release of funding by distributors to successful applicants can depend on many factors including the nature of the project concerned, the terms and conditions of grant agreed between the applicant and the distributor, and the rate at which the project progresses. For many projects, a grant may be released in instalments over a period of months or years.
The information on application processing times is not available for the lifetime of each distributor but the details provided by the distributors sponsored by the Department are shown in the following tables:
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2000–01 2001–02 Arts Council of England 63 days 71 days Community Fund 11 weeks 12.5 weeks Heritage Lottery Fund 5.6 months 7.4 months Film Council 1— 55 days Millennium Commission 2— 2— UK Sport 1— 12 weeks 1 Not available. 2 See the following. The Millennium Commission's work is increasingly focussed on the delivery and monitoring of existing projects rather than new applications.
The New Opportunities Fund sets performance indicators that measure their performance in achieving their policy directions across the lifetime of each programme and are not by each financial year.
§ Nick HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many bids were made to and how much funding was(a) requested and
£ Distributing Body 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Arts council of England 236,448,607 438,569,060 348,730,571 156,693,442 171,034,631 Arts council of Northern Ireland 4,307,651 7,062,937 4,740,377 10,402,112 8,622,996 Arts council of Wales 9,110,844 13,770,498 27,130,278 12,925,265 16,528,332 Awards for all (England) Joint Scheme 0 0 0 0 0 Community fund 159,573,748 300,936,127 222,316,992 286,452,996 511,166,766 Film council 0 0 0 0 2,000,000 Heritage Lottery fund 107,857,356 331,742,595 482,869,443 287,154,304 217,126,985 Millennium Commission 333,468,200 437,053,600 1,078,936,503 51,674,629 42,596,296 New opportunities fund 0 0 0 0 93,099,315 Scottish arts council 13,624,157 37,404,662 28,195,108 36,892,837 14,331,128 Scottish screen 0 0 0 0 0 Sport England 94,934,628 108,423,663 169,574,273 214,901,672 276,758,494 Sport Scotland 14,608,885 20,287,827 14,636,987 26,653,011 17,444,590 Sports council for Northern Ireland 4,574,880 6,529,998 7,618,882 10,515,805 6,267,805 Sports council for Wales 4,922,738 13,494,761 18,223,262 6,971,813 4,754,354 UK Sport 0 0 200,000 12,160 11,011,950
£ Distributing Body 2000 2001 2002 2003 Arts council of England 102,495,067 169,348,066 105,417,740 1,375,292 Arts council of Northern Ireland 1,522,456 3,580,320 1,662,631 170,806 Arts council of Wales 11,491,739 9,593,214 7,909,221 931,738 Awards for all (England) Joint Scheme 0 0 33,346,684 13,099,734 Community fund 364,125,191 324,035,982 275,819,367 123,106,661 Film council 14,188,552 27,552,072 28,759,193 19,431,635 Heritage Lottery fund 183,800,172 252,556,164 310,038,016 118,549,168 Millennium Commission 38,323,058 4,543,272 0 0 New opportunities fund 87,029,281 283,286,909 398,905,082 272,354,494 Scottish Arts council 14,804,013 9,735,060 3,544,944 284,786 Scottish screen 3,392,911 3,361,188 0 0 Sport England 295,945,174 264,803,648 142,817,084 27,701,222 Sport Scotland 6,355,986 19,184,986 11,716,056 1,062,534 Sports council for Northern Ireland 3,662,642 2,883,638 236,899 125,210 Sports council for Wales 3,240,967 16,853,584 20,515,883 6,722,023 UK Sport 23,941,847 63,927,347 10,776,350 3,608,121 Note:
The Millennium Commission and Scottish Screen have not provided figures for 2002 or 2003.