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Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much funding has been provided from (a) central Governmentfunds, (b) European funds and (c) other public funds to (i) football, (ii) rugby, (iii) hockey, (iv) cricket and (v)Gaelic games in Northern Ireland in each financial year since 2000-01. [154154]Angela Smith: Funding provided from (a) central Government funds, (b) European funds and (c) other public fundsto (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 TotalFootball 1,264,009 1951,803 1981,188 3,197,000Rugby 152,843 157,551 92,536 402,930Hockey 27,464 61,225 54,902 143,591Cricket 20,000 22,000 26,330 68,330Gaelic games 652,085 381,333 557,676 1,591,094Totals 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 2001-02 and2002-03.(b) European FundsThe following table provides information on European Funds administrated by DFP and DARD to football, rugby, hockey, cricket andGaelic games for each financial year from 2000-01.£_________________________________________________________________________________________________.2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 TotalFootball 915 0 10,800 11,715Rugby 0 939 0 939Hockey 0 0 0 --Cricket 4,067 0 0 4,067Gaelic games 18,557 1,885 5,594 26,036Totals 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 Gaelicgames. This funding was for projects that included more than one of the above sports, the details are as follows._________________________________________________________________________________________________.Numerous sports (£)2000-01 02001-02 02002-03 3,906Total 3,906_________________________________________________________________________________________________.(c) Other Public FundsThe following table details the amount of Sports Lottery funding that has been allocated to football, rugby, hockey, cricket andGaelic games for financial years 2000-01, 2001-02 and 2002-03 by the Sports Council for Northern Ireland.£_________________________________________________________________________________________________.2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 TotalFootball 942,492 642,710 609,131 2,194,333Rugby 312,053 144,000 76,860 532,913Hockey 47,625 199,850 68,800 316,275Cricket 282,500 57,202 16,000 355,702Gaelic games 1,694,182 1,025,420 689,962 3,409,564Totals 3,278,852 2,069,182 1,460,753 6,808,787_________________________________________________________________________________________________. |