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Arts: Hartlepool

Volume 459: debated on Monday 16 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much Government funding local artists in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) Tees Valley sub-region received in each of the last 10 years. (130888)

The tables show the Arts Council’s funding commitments to local artists in Hartlepool and Tees Valley in the last 10 years. Local artists are defined as individual artists living in Hartlepool or Tees Valley. Grant in aid figures exclude grants given to regularly funded organisations.

(a) Local artists in the Hartlepool constituency

£

Grant in aid

Lottery

1997-98

1,284

0

1998-99

2,628

0

1999-2000

3,127

0

2000-01

709

0

2001-02

3,867

0

2002-03

6,476

0

2003-04

0

0

2004-05

0

5,000

2005-06

0

0

2006-07

1,500

0

Total

19,590

5,000

(b) Local artists in the Tees valley sub-region

£

Grant in aid

Lottery

1997-98

15,509

0

1998-99

18,771

0

1999-2000

24,513

20,900

2000-01

4,950

26,550

2001-02

17,859

0

2002-03

52,355

0

2003-04

91,862

0

2004-05

46,102

0

2005-06

53,313

0

2006-07

104,954

0

Total

430,188

47,450

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much public money was spent on arts projects in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) Tees Valley sub-region in each of the last 10 years. (130889)

The tables show the Arts Council’s funding commitments to arts projects in Hartlepool and Tees Valley in the last 10 years. Grant in aid figures exclude grants given to regularly funded organisations.

(a) Arts projects in the Hartlepool constituency

£

Grant in aid

Lottery

1997-98

76,485

517,568

1998-99

75,533

75,757

1999-2000

154,866

0

2000-01

162,209

7,850

2001-02

114,841

48,000

2002-03

36,922

0

2003-04

17,879

28,578

2004-05

29,055

2,650

2005-06

97,721

0

2006-07

86,363

11,850

Total

851,875

692,253

(b) Arts projects in the Tees valley sub-region

£

Grant in aid

Lottery

1997-98

610,563

816,961

1998-99

685,460

357,243

1999-2000

966,873

63,000

2000-01

1,043,282

250,287

2001-02

844,498

426,078

2002-03

216,985

478,215

2003-04

245,714

4,930,246

2004-05

533,721

357,693

2005-06

786,917

628,336

2006-07

897,551

432,343

Total

6,831,564

8,740,402