Heritage Lottery Fund

Miss McIntosh
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was allocated to the Heritage Lottery Fund from the National Lottery Distribution Fund in each of the last three years; and how much will be allocated in 2007-08.

Mr. Caborn
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) receives a one-sixth share of money arriving in the National Lottery Distribution Fund (NLDF) from the Lottery operator. It also receives a share of investment earnings from the NLDF balance. HLF is not allocated a sum, rather it receives a share of what has accumulated.

We do not know, therefore, what the value of the HLF’s share will be in 2006-07 or 2007-08 because this will depend on variable factors, such as sales of Lottery products and returns on investments. The value of HLF’s share of income in the last three years was  £246 million in 2003-04, £266 million in 2004-05 and £270 million in 2005-06. My Department’s current projections for the income of which HLF will receive a share is that it may fall by about 8 per cent. in 2006-07 and 2.5 per cent. in 2007-08.