Digital Switchover Help Scheme

Mr. Don Foster
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding her Department has provided for the digital television initiatives in Kirklees, Hull and Glasgow referred to in the minutes of the Emerging Technologies Group meeting of 27 February 2008.

Mr. Iain Wright
In total, £3,768,000 of funding was provided to develop the Kirklees initiative, which formed part of the local e-government programme. This initiative is now entirely self-sustaining and no longer relies on funding from central Government.

The Kingston upon Hull project has been allocated £30,000 from the overall award which was made to the runners-up in the Department’s 2007 Digital Challenge competition to enable them to develop their key projects.

CLG has no responsibility for the Glasgow digital television initiative.