Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish a list of the funding made available to cathedrals in each of the county council and metropolitan areas in England through the Culture Recovery Fund.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Lists of recipients of Rounds One and Two of the Culture Recovery Fund including cathedrals are already published by the relevant awarding bodies, including details of the amounts given and the region. The lists can be found on their websites here:
Historic England: https://historicengland.org.uk/coronavirus/culturerecoveryfund/map/recipients-list/
Arts Council England:
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/publication/culture-recovery-fund-data
National Lottery Heritage Fund:
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish a list of the funding made available to church buildings, excluding cathedrals, in each of the county council and metropolitan areas in England through the Culture Recovery Fund.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Lists of recipients of Rounds One and Two of the Culture Recovery Fund including churches are already published by the relevant awarding bodies, including details of the amounts given and the region. The lists can be found on their websites here:
Historic England: https://historicengland.org.uk/coronavirus/culturerecoveryfund/map/recipients-list/
Arts Council England:
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/publication/culture-recovery-fund-data
National Lottery Heritage Fund:
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish the Statement of Reasons relating to the renewal of Camelot's National Lottery licence, originally published in August 2007.
Answered by John Whittingdale
The competition for the third National Lottery Licence was run by the National Lottery Commission, which was merged with the Gambling Commission in October 2013. The Commission announced the outcome of the competition on 7th August 2007, at which time it also published the ‘Statement of Reasons’. This can be found through the National Archives website.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 29 April 2021 to Questions 188087 and 188086, how much Camelot UK Lotteries Limited has spent on advertising in each year since 1994.
Answered by John Whittingdale
Available data covers marketing spend, of which advertising is one element. The table below shows total marketing expenditure during the course of the Third Licence period. We do not hold advertising or marketing data for the period prior to the start of the Third Licence.
Year | Marketing spend (£m) |
2009/2010 | £75.6 |
2010/2011 | £69.3 |
2011/2012 | £81.4 |
2012/2013 | £78.3 |
2013/2014 | £81.8 |
2014/2015 | £79.1 |
2015/2016 | £89.5 |
2016/2017 | £97.0 |
2017/2018 | £96.1 |
2018/2019 | £126.6 |
2019/2020 | £146.6 |
The amount the operator spends on marketing is subject to conditions set out in the licence, which specify minimum amounts that must be spent on marketing as a whole, of which advertising is one element. More information can be found at Schedule 10, Condition 11, Part 1 of the Third Licence.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 29 April 2021 to Question 188088, how much good cause income was generated through National Lottery sales and placed into the National Lottery Distribution Fund in each year since 1994.
Answered by John Whittingdale
Proceeds from the National Lottery due to the National Lottery Distribution Fund (NLDF) from the operator are calculated as set out in the terms of the third National Lottery Licence. Total annual National Lottery good cause income since 1994, is shown in the table below.
Total NLDF income is set out in the table below. In addition to income received through sales, good cause income received into the NLDF also includes unclaimed prizes and investment income, amongst other additions, although sales income makes up c 92% of the total. More detailed information is available in the National Lottery Distribution Fund Annual Report.
Year | Total Returns to Good Causes (£m) |
1994/95 | £299* |
1995/96 | £1,536 |
1996/97 | £1,588 |
1997/98 | £1,952 |
1998/99 | £1,919 |
1999/00 | £1,766 |
2000/01 | £1,773 |
2001/02 | £1,842 |
2002/03 | £1,592 |
2003/04 | £1,394 |
2004/05 | £1,475 |
2005/06 | £1,500 |
2006/07 | £1,296 |
2007/08 | £1,301 |
2008/09 | £1,316 |
2009/10 | £1,496 |
2010/11 | £1,569 |
2011/12 | £1,693 |
2012/13 | £1,936 |
2013/14 | £1,700 |
2014/15 | £1,963 |
2015/16 | £1,934 |
2016/17 | £1,638 |
2017/18 | £1,644 |
2018/19 | £1,615 |
2019/20 | £1,801 |
* As the Lottery began in November 1994, data from 1994/1995 is only for a partial year.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to remove and prevent the selling of (a) illegal and (b) dangerous products on (i) online marketplaces and (ii) online community forums.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
In December 2020 we published the full government response to the Online Harms White Paper consultation, setting out further details about the new online safety regulatory framework.
Under the new legislation, both online marketplaces and online community forums will need to take action to tackle criminal activity. This includes the sale of illegal products such as drugs and weapons. They will need to ensure that illegal content is removed expeditiously and that the risk of it appearing and spreading across their services is minimised by effective systems.
The Government is committed to tackling the sale of unsafe consumer products online. My officials engage regularly with the Office for Product Safety and Standards, which works to ensure that major online marketplaces play their part in protecting UK consumers from unsafe goods.
We are working on legislation at pace and it will be ready this year.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many places of worship have been received support under the Listed Places of Worship Grants Scheme since 2012.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The administrator for the scheme, TopMark, took over in 2014. They have paid out 45,655 grants to approximately 16,170 places of worship. Between 2012 and 2014, the previous administrator for the grant paid out 4,035 grants to 3,425 Listed Places of Worship.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what is the total amount of funding that has been made available through the Listed Places of Worship Grants Scheme since 2012.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
In 2012, DCMS and HM Treasury became joint funders of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme and annual funding was increased to up to £42m (to offset changes to the rate of VAT on alterations) with DCMS funding the first £17m with the further (up to) £25m coming from HMT reserves. In total, the amount available to the grant scheme amounts to £378m since 2012.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
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 made available through the Listed Places of Worship Grants Scheme in (a) 2016 - 2017, (b) 2017 - 2018, (c) 2018 - 2019, (d) 2019 - 2020 and (e) in the current financial year.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Between DCMS and HM Treasury, the funding available for the Listed Places of Worship Grant is up to £42m. The following figures show what was claimed for each of the financial years:
2016/2017 - £31,298,390.23
2017/2018 - £33,166,559.49
2018/2019 - £34,517,766.03
2019/2020 - £34,078,628.89
Current Financial Year (up to 31/1/21) - £22,566,078.26
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what future support he plans to make available to help restore confidence in the fitness and gym sector after the national covid-19 lockdown measures have been lifted.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Sports and physical activity are incredibly important for our physical and mental health, and are a vital weapon against coronavirus.
The Government has provided unprecedented support to businesses through tax reliefs, cash grants and employee wage support. On 22 October 2020, the Government also announced a £100m support fund for local authority leisure centres.
In addition, Sport England’s Community Emergency Fund has provided £220 million directly to support community sport clubs and exercise centres through this pandemic. On 26 January Sport England also published their strategy ‘Uniting the Movement’ and as part of this have committed an extra £50million to help grassroots sports clubs and organisations affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
We are continuing to work with organisations to understand what they need and how we may be able to support them.