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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many brass bands in each English region received funding from Arts Council England in each year since 2010.

A list of the eligible applications to the Arts Council in each year since 2010 in the sub-art form “Brass and Silver bands” by region, are outlined in the attached tables. Some activity, for which brass bands play a constituent part, may not be included as the wider activity has not been classified specifically as such. Ineligible applications are not recorded by sub-art form.

Since April 2016, Brass bands have also benefited from the Orchestra tax relief.