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Lottery Awards

Volume 299: debated on Thursday 31 July 1997

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To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list, for each category of national lottery good causes, how much money has been awarded to individuals or organisations in the Chorley parliamentary constituency in each year since the lottery was established. [11219]

To date, over £3.7 billion has been awarded to 27,387 projects throughout the UK. Of these, 19 awards worth £534,962 have been made to projects in Chorley. Annual breakdowns are set out in the following table.

Distributing bodyTotal amount £Number of awards
1995
Arts Council of England0
Heritage Lottery Fund0
Millennium Commission0
National Lottery Charities Board53,3283
Sports Council43,5231
Total for 199596,8514
1996
Arts Council of England0
Heritage Lottery Fund97,1302
Millennium Commission0
National Lottery Charities Board324,31310
Sports Council9,1181
Total for 1996430,56113
Region
London1MerseysideNorth-westSouth-east
Distributing bodyAmount£AwardsAmount£AwardsAmount£AwardsAmount£Awards
1995
Arts Council126,468,346813,225,848107,318,9244112,526,98345
Charities Board28,804,7753286,504,45110513,403,17222113,412,786240
Sports Council4,840,007344,108,99799,293,5466125,168,932121
Heritage Lottery Fund23,785,8822090,00014,600,61971,304,64212
Millennium Commission252,200,00021,668,500112,431,702270,891,5005
1995 total236,099,01046515,597,79612647,047,963332123,304,843423
1996
Arts Council163,399,6061732,050,2431569,810,9768440,639,87384
Charities Board52,367,04355911,229,82014127,542,09436125,752,757410
Sports Council31,921,074713,409,9031415,159,62411332,160,530212
Heritage Lottery Fund125,134,428594,010,000414,158,0653615,293,20439
Millennium Commission52,943,7185019,065,54934,296,8506
1996 total425,765,86986720,699,966174145,736,308597118,143,214751
1997
Arts Council35,794,1838932,857,8834022,961,54715910,564,722583
Charities Board5,994,942360197,35931,509,19012
Sports Council46,073,489456,309,089653,787,6007436,365,440122
Heritage Lottery Fund60,629,091689,706,100951,888,9584626,842,75862
Millennium Commission028,721,19522,700,0001329,8001
1997 total148,491,7051,04247,594,26757131,535,46428375,611,910780
Grand total810,356,5812,37483,892,029357324,319,7351,212317,059,9671,954
1 Awards to bodies based in London include many to institutions that are of national importance and are of benefit to the country as a whole. Awards to these organisations account for 60 per cent. (approximately £485 million) of the total so far awarded to London.
2 Figures for Millennium Commission awards cover capital projects only and so exclude the Millennium Awards scheme.

Distributing body

Total amount £

Number of awards

1997

Arts Council of England7,5502
Heritage Lottery Fund0
Millennium Commission0
National Lottery Charities Board0
Sport Council0
Total for 19977,5502
Grand total534,96219

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list, for each category of national lottery good causes, how much money has been (a) given and (b) awarded in the Government regions of (i) London, (ii) the north-west, (iii) Merseyside and (iv) the south-east, in each of the years since the lottery was established. [11220]

To date, over £3.7 billion has been awarded to 27,387 projects throughout the UK. An annual breakdown of the awards in London, the north-west, Merseyside and the south-east is set out in the following table. Figures for the amounts already drawn down by region are not held centrally.