To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much national lottery funding has been made available for local sports facilities over the past five years. (84643)

Since the start of 2001, 17,689 lottery awards worth a total value of £1.3 billion have been made by the five sports lottery distributors.

Local sports facilities are not identified as a category on the Department’s lottery grants database. The information could therefore be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Information on all lottery awards is available from the database, searchable at www.lottery.culture.gov.uk, which uses information supplied by the lottery distributors.