§ Jon TrickettTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her estimate is of the total value of funding made available to voluntary groups by the Community Fund and utilised for the employment of paid employees. [164634]
§ Estelle MorrisThe total value of funding made available to voluntary and community organisations by the Community Fund was £2.6 billion as at 31 March 2003. It is not possible to identify the value of funding utilised for the employment of paid employees as the Community Fund does not collect this data.
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§ Jon TrickettTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what value of the Community Fund has been set aside exclusively for local groups in the Wakefield area; if she will list the total distribution from this sum to date; and if she will make a statement. [164635]
§ Estelle MorrisFair share is an initiative designed by the Community Fund and the New Opportunities Fund to make Lottery funding more readily available to disadvantaged communities in 77 local areas, which so far have not received their fair share of Lottery funding. Wakefield is one of these 77 areas. The Fair Share initiative was launched in the spring of 2002 and will run until March 2005. The Fair Share target amount for Wakefield for this period is £4,765,000. To date under the Fair Share initiative £3,070,429 has been awarded to 23 projects in Wakefield, which is 64 per cent. of the total allocated amount.