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Coastal Resorts

Volume 449: debated on Monday 17 July 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which coastal resorts in England and Wales received Heritage Lottery grants in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. (85388)

The Heritage Lottery Fund have awarded the following grants to English coastal resorts (as defined by the British Resorts Association) and Welsh coastal resorts since 1994-95 to 2005-06:

Region/coastal resort

Number of projects

Total value (£)

England

East Midlands

Skegness

3

1,232,360

East Midlands total

3

1,232,360

Eastern

Aldeburgh

3

133,842

Clacton-on-Sea

3

501,495

Cromer

4

787,300

Felixstowe

1

25,000

Frinton-on-Sea

1

6,500

Great Yarmouth

13

6,419,375

Hunstanton

1

38,000

Lowestoft

9

4,879,370

Sheringham

6

1,327,340

Southend-on-Sea

4

1,659,300

Southwold

2

308,600

St. Ives

1

67,600

Eastern total

48

16,153,722

North East

12

7,912,350

North Shields

9

1,652,600

Redcar

7

942,124

Saltburn-by-the-Sea

5

1,676,500

South Shields

10

6,074,725

Sunderland

18

15,751,100

Whitley Bay

3

157,680

North East total

64

34,167,079

North West

Blackpool

10

6,063,500

Fleetwood

1

28,300

Grange-over-Sands

8

448,519

Lytham St. Annes

5

168,600

Morecambe

3

177,800

Southport

8

5,552,000

Thornton-Cleveleys

1

49,700

Whitehaven

7

1,386,400

North West total

43

13,874,819

South East

Bexhill-on-Sea

4

3,341,900

Bognor Regis

3

1,802,700

Brighton

27

1,365,862

Broadstairs

1

433,000

Christchurch

2

413,400

Eastbourne

8

2,492,750

Folkestone

5

2,126,618

Hastings

8

4,819,100

Herne Bay

3

1,230,400

Hythe

2

2,581,750

Margate

5

1,954,725

Ramsgate

8

4,034,750

Ryde

6

2,383,500

Sandown

3

2,573,729

Southsea

4

479,465

Ventnor

1

30,000

Whitstable

4

490,625

Worthing

10

2,210,245

South East total

104

32,032,795

South West

Bournemouth

7

3,431,025

Bristol

78

73,601,388

Brixham

4

119,300

Bude

5

85,700

Burnham-on-Sea

1

431,400

Christchurch

2

2,670,000

Clevedon

2

1,221,013

Dartmouth

2

72,000

Dawlish

1

20,400

Exmouth

1

50,000

Falmouth

22

21,017,031

Ilfracombe

3

1,203,000

Lyme Regis

6

492,800

Minehead

6

787,000

Newquay

3

89,000

Paignton

2

71,700

Penzance

23

4,384,812

Poole

9

1,480,700

Sidmouth

3

684,100

St. Ives

2

648,700

Swanage

3

109,600

Teignmouth

1

50,000

Torquay

9

7,530,800

Weston-super-Mare

11

2,042,140

Weymouth

5

2,747,288

South West total

211

125,040,897

Yorkshire and the Humber

Bridlington

4

184,900

Cleethorpes

2

324,000

Filey

3

114,000

Hornsea

3

186,900

Scarborough

16

3,472,500

Whitby

15

7,397,100

Withernsea

1

3,800

Yorkshire and the Humber total

44

11,680,200

England total

517

234,184,872

Wales

Aberystwyth

18

3,892,036

Colwyn Bay

10

914,981

Llandudno

8

1,770,910

Porthcawl

2

102,865

Prestatyn

3

9,357

Rhyl

13

2,733,523

Swansea

68

14,448,580

Tenby

13

1,104,401

Wales total

135

24,976,653