To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport with reference to the answer of 21 July 2009, Official Report, column 1557W, on music: finance (a) how much of the £500,000 funding announced in December 2007 to set up music rehearsal spaces has now been (i) allocated and (ii) spent and (b) how many of the new rehearsal spaces are now open. (304749)

Although we continue to make good progress on the development of these spaces in liaison with our local authority and music industry partners, and expect to make further offers of grant shortly, for the moment the position remains as set out in the answer of 21 July 2009.