Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been allocated to Black-led charities and/or Black-led community organisations in each year from 2015 to 2021.

DCMS has not routinely collected this data across all of our programmes. Policy officials are currently reviewing how DCMS captures data on civil society organisations that are black-led, as well as other inclusivity and diversity metrics going forward.

DCMS’ Coronavirus Community Support Fund (CCSF) granted £200 million to small and medium sized charities) in 2020. The National Lottery Community Fund awarded 12% of all grants to organisations which benefited BAME people/groups and had leadership with relevant lived experience. The value of these contracts was £21,859.432.00.