To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in respect of which projects each of his Department’s non-departmental public bodies will receive ring-fenced funding in each of the next three years; and what the cost of each such project will be. (255930)

At the conclusion of Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 negotiations, only funding to the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and funding to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLAC) for Renaissance in the Regions and the Government Indemnity Scheme, were depicted as being ring-fenced. ODA funding, which represents the maximum expected cost to the Exchequer, is broken down as follows:

This answer does not include the funding amounts for MLAC, which were detailed in my answer on 12 February 2009, Official Report, columns 2276-78W, to the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt).

Funding for 2011-12 for the Department’s non-departmental public bodies falls outside of the current spending review period, and will be the subject of detailed negotiation at a later date.