Sports Funding (Hansard, 13 February 2004)

§ Angela Smith

Funding provided from(a) central Government funds, (b) European funds and (c) other public funds to (i) football, (ii) rugby, (iii) hockey, (iv) cricket and (v) Gaelic games in each financial year from 2000–01 is as follows:

(a) Central Government Funds
£
	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	Total
Football	1,264,009	¹951,803	¹981,188	3,197,000
Rugby	152,843	157,551	92,536	402,930
Hockey	27,464	61,225	54,902	143,591
Cricket	20,000	22,000	26,330	68,330
Gaelic games	652,085	381,333	557,676	1,591,094
Totals	2,116,401	1,573,912	1,712,632	5,402,945
¹ These figures include £100,000 and £500,000 allocated to Soccer from the Football Development Centre Programme for 2001–02and 2002–03.

(b) European Funds

The following table provides information on European Funds administrated by DFP and DARD to football, rugby, hockey, cricket and Gaelic games for each financial year from 2000–01.

£
2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	Total
Football	915	0	10,800	11,715
Rugby	0	939	0	939
Hockey	0	0	0	—
Cricket	4,067	0	0	4,067
Gaelic games	18,557	1,885	5,594	26,036
Totals	23,539	2,824	16,394	42,757

DFP has also provided European funding (Peace II) to numerous sports which include, football, rugby, hockey, cricket and Gaelic games. This funding was for projects that included more than one of the above sports, the details are as follows.

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	Numerous sports £
2000–01	0
2001–02	0
2002–03	3,906
Total	3,906

The following table details the amount of Sports Lottery funding that has been allocated to football, rugby, hockey, cricket and Gaelic games for financial years 2000–01, 2001–02 and 2002–03 by the Sports Council for Northern Ireland.

£
	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	Total
Football	942,492	642,710	609,131	2,194,333
Rugby	312,053	144,000	76,860	532,913
Hockey	47,625	199,850	68,800	316,275
Cricket	282,500	57,202	16,000	355,702
Gaelic games	1,694,182	1,025,420	689,962	3,409,564
Totals	3,278,852	2,069,182	1,460,753	6,808,787