§ Jon TrickettTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps have been taken in response to the National Audit Office Report by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, to improve the distribution of Lottery money across the regions; and if she will make a statement. [164631]
§ Estelle MorrisNESTA has recruited a National and Regional Co-ordinator to develop and implement a strategic approach to ensuring equality of access to NESTA's programmes across the UK.
NESTA has commissioned research to examine how its processes might be refined to address regional imbalance and the report options for action will be considered by NESTA's Board of Trustees in April.