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National Lottery

Volume 470: debated on Thursday 24 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much National Lottery funding has been spent on (a) arts, (b) heritage, (c) community sport, (d) school sport and (e) capital funding for schools in each year since 1997. (181141)

[holding answer 22 January 2008]: National Lottery expenditure for the good cause sectors specified is set out in the table, subject to the qualifications given. The figures are for the United Kingdom as a whole.

£ million (rounded)

Arts: drawdown from the NLDF by the six arts/film distributors

Heritage: drawdown from the NLDF by the Heritage Lottery fund

Sport; drawdown from the NLDF by the five sports distributors

School sport: payments by New Opportunities Fund/Big Lottery Fund under the PE and Sport in Schools and School Sports co-ordinators programme

Other sport: payments by NOF/big Lottery fund under the community Sports Programmes, Space for Sport and the Arts and Football Foundation

1997-98

356

133

188

0

0

1998-99

366

196

397

0

0

1999-2000

259

277

317

0

0

2000-01

272

290

293

0

0

2001-02

275

262

359

11

0

2002-03

246

265

377

3

2

2003-04

295

324

315

21

11

2004-05

298

308

242

74

11

2005-06

275

374

264

211

39

2006-07

228

367

209

183

43