Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to increase women's participation in sport and physical activity.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The number of women regularly participating in sport is up by over 588,800 since we won the Olympic bid in 2005 and has increased by 62,800 in the last year alone. However the gap between men's and women's participation is still too large. We have an independent group advising us on how best to address this, from encouraging participation through the ‘This Girl Can’ campaign launched this week, to increasing media coverage and sponsorship, and getting more women into leadership positions.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the total amount of money awarded to good causes by the National Lottery in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency and (b) North Yorkshire in each of the last five years.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
National Lottery funding figures for the Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency in each of the last five years:
2013: 29 grants worth a total of £8,645,453
2012: 22 grants worth a total of £624,654
2011:23 grants worth a total of £1,622,769
2010: 25 grants worth a total of £1,710,701
2009: 23 grants worth a total of £600,362
(Please note the 2013 figure is much higher as there was a grant of £6.8 million to Your Consortium, a charity based in Knaresborough.)
National Lottery funding figures for North Yorkshire in each of the last five years:
2013: 263 grants worth a total of £26,491,173
2012: 261 grants worth a total of £12,087,874
2011: 266 grants worth a total of £12,517,310
2010: 250 grants worth a total of £11,224,497
2009: 300 grants worth a total of £8,454,417
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much arts funding (a) in total and (b) per head of population was allocated in (i) North Yorkshire and (ii) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Decisions on arts funding are made independently of Government by Arts Council England (ACE) and local authorities and as such we do not hold the information requested. However, the following information has been provided by ACE.
North Yorkshire - 5 Year Investment Figures (population based on mid-2012 estimate)
North Yorkshire (Total population: 602,628)
2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | |
Grant in Aid | £ 1,503,276 | £ 1,515,037 | £ 1,393,744 | £ 1,700,587 | £ 2,129,340 |
Lottery | £ 1,254,106 | £ 916,871 | £ 649,212 | £ 1,211,114 | £ 919,252 |
Total | £ 2,757,382 | £ 2,431,908 | £ 2,042,956 | £ 2,911,701 | £ 3,048,592 |
Per Capita | £ 4.58 | £ 4.04 | £ 3.39 | £ 4.83 | £ 5.06 |
Local Authorities constituting North Yorkshire: Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby. Please note that as a unitary authority, the City of York does not feature in the North Yorkshire figures.
Harrogate & Knaresborough (Population: 101,832)
2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | |
Grant in Aid | £ 180,145.00 | £ 178,974 | £ 174,080 | £ 139,961 | £ 290,340 |
Lottery | £ 9,665.00 | £ 58,582 | £ 116,800 | £ - | £ 144,100 |
Total | £ 189,810 | £ 237,556 | £ 290,880 | £ 139,961 | £ 434,440 |
Per Capita | £ 1.86 | £ 2.33 | £ 2.86 | £ 1.37 | £ 4.27 |
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if his Department will estimate the level of financial benefit in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber as a result of the upcoming launch of the Tour de France.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
UK Sport is supporting the production of a full economic impact assessment of the event and this will be made available later this year.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the contribution of (a) Yorkshire and the Humber, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency to the UK's tourism economy.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The latest regional-breakdown estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), published on 20 February 2014, show that in 2011 tourism in Yorkshire and the Humber directly contributed a gross value-added (GVA) of around £2.6 billion to the economy. This is 5.3% of the UK's tourism economy, which is valued in this study at £48.7 billion. The same estimates show that North Yorkshire contributed a GVA of £0.89 billion, which represents 1.8% of the UK's tourism economy. We do not have an estimate of the contribution of the Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency to the UK's tourism economy.