In the Revenue return to Communities and Local Government, Westminster reported that they have received no grants between 1997-98 and 2006-07 from my Department. These specific grants are those inside Aggregate External Finance (AEF) (i.e. revenue grants paid for councils' core services) paid to Westminster and exclude grants outside AEF such as capital grants, funding for local authorities’ housing management responsibilities, European funding; or where authorities are simply one of the recipients of funding paid towards an area.
These Revenue returns do not therefore detail the money that is paid out by the National Lottery, DCMS non-departmental public bodies and other sources. Departmental data indicate that the following grants were paid to Westminster:
Since November 2005, DCMS has provided funding to Westminster city council to manage the contract for the 7 July Assistance Centre—a centre established to offer practical and emotional assistance to victims of the 7 July London bombings and emergencies overseas. The funding is set out in the following table.
Grant (£) November 2005 to March 2006 89,425 April 2006 to March 2007 204,797 April 2007 to March 2008 (confirmed funding) 235,000 Total 529,222
The following table shows the number and value of grants on the Department’s Lottery Grants Database (which uses information supplied by the Lottery distributors) where the name of the recipient is recorded as either ‘Westminster city council’ or ‘city of Westminster’. Lottery distributing bodies make grant decisions independently of my Department.
Calendar year Number of grants Value of grants to nearest £1,000 1997 0 0 1998 0 0 1999 1 50,000 2000 3 702,000 2001 3 169,000 2002 4 120,000 2003 2 116,000 2004 4 794,000 2005 4 141,000 2006 2 40,000 2007 (to date) 1 39,000 Total 24 2,171,000
English Heritage has provided grants totalling £239,735 to Westminster city council since 1997, in the following table.
Project Date Grant (£) World Square Feasibility Study 31 March 1998 15,000 Conservation Officer post 15 July 1998 3,912 Conservation Officer post 31 March 2000 26,577 Conservation Officer post 28 March 2001 37,665 Conservation Officer post 27 March 2002 14,151 Conservation Officer post 8 April 2003 16,483 Conservation Officer post 19 March 2004 19,751 Conservation Officer post 25 February 2005 11,196 Soho Conservation Area Study 12 March 2004 5,000 Hyde Park Corner landscaping works 24 March 2006 90,000 Total 239,735