§ Mr. DjanoglyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people are being included in the Images of England project at the National Monuments Record of English Heritage. [132276]
§ Mr. CabornThe Images of England project is creating a 'point in time' photographic record of England's 370,000 listed buildings. A wide range of buildings and other structures, from houses and barns to telephone boxes, churches, gravestones and cinemas, are included in the statutory lists of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.
The project is not seeking to photograph people associated with the listed buildings and English Heritage does not generally hold (or seek) information about how many individuals inhabit those that are private dwellings.
§ Mr. DjanoglyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people have applied requesting exemption from the Images of England project at the National Monuments Record of English Heritage. [132277]
§ Mr. CabornAs of the end of September 2003, English Heritage has received 4,508 applications for exemption relating to less than 1.5 per cent of the 370,000 listed buildings.
§ Mr. DjanoglyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the annual cost is of the Images of England project at the National Monuments Record of English Heritage. [132278]
§ Mr. CabornThe average annual cost of the Images of England project (taken until the end of the 2002–03 financial year and excluding the pilot project) is £897,000, 75 per cent. of which is provided through a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The average annual cost to English Heritage over the same period is therefore £224,000.