National Lottery: Northern Ireland Mark Durkan 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. Mr. Sutcliffe 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.