National Lottery: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding was granted by the National Lottery (a) to schemes in Northern Ireland and (b) per head of the population in Northern Ireland in each financial year since 1997. (189437)

The number and value of grants awarded by the Lottery Distributing Bodies in each financial year since 1997, in Northern Ireland, is given in the following table. The figures are derived from the DCMS lottery grants database. The population figure used throughout is 1,741,600, which is the mid-2006 estimate of the Office for National Statistics.

Financial year	Number of Grants	Total value of grants (£)	Per capita value (£)
2007 (to date)	498	37,518,712	21.54
2006-07	1,501	43,297,488	24.86
2005-06	1,905	73,717,565	42.33
2004-05	1,479	50,417,962	28.95
2003-04	1,177	48,468,452	27.83
2002-03	1,635	74,139,886	42.57
2001-02	1,356	57,949,621	33.27
2000-01	948	45,372,133	26.05
1999-2000	972	67,638,796	38.84
1998-99	692	60,909,678	34.97
1997-98	630	95,550,031	54.86
Total	12,793	654,980,324	—

The Department’s lottery grants database is searchable at:

www.lottery.culture.gov.uk

and uses information supplied by the lottery distributors.

Volume 472: debated on Tuesday 26 February 2008