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National Lottery: Grants

Volume 502: debated on Wednesday 9 December 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the funds to be distributed from the National Lottery to good causes in each year to 2015; and if he will make a statement. (305356)

DCMS does not forecast future Lottery income, but we do issue projections of what income might be if total sales stay at approximately the last year’s level. The latest income projection issued to non-Olympic Lottery distributors in September 2009 was as follows:

£ million

Total income

Transfer to Olympics

2009-10

1,386

292

2010-11

1,391

292

2011-12

1,392

292

2012-13

1,453

136

2013-14

1,488

2014-15

1,492

The total income column is gross income, i.e. before the Olympic transfers are taken into account.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been distributed by the Big Lottery Fund to statutory bodies in each of the last five years. (305357)

The Big Lottery Fund has distributed funding to statutory bodies where they are best placed to deliver outcomes for communities and people most in need. The Big Lottery Fund does not fund statutory bodies’ core work nor does it substitute or replace statutory funding. Where BIG distributes funding to statutory bodies it is often on the precondition that they work in partnership with voluntary and community sector organisations.

The following table shows the amount awarded to statutory bodies across the UK by the Big Lottery Fund each full financial year since its inception on 1 June 2004.

Financial year ending 31 March

Number of awards

Total awarded (£)

2006

1,664

59,210,398

2007

1,619

38,144,003

2008

2,612

173,326,762

2009

2,073

41,420,649

Funding made through statutory bodies as third party award partners where the voluntary and community sector organisations are the direct beneficiary have not been included in these figures.

Amounts retained by the statutory third party award partner for administrative costs have been included.