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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding per capita his Department allocated to museums in each (a) region and (b) local authority area in the last financial year.

A number of DCMS-sponsored museums have sites in different local authorities/regions but we do not have details of how the funding is allocated between sites. The national museums have partnerships with many regional and local museums and tour objects from their collections nationally and internationally. As arm’s length bodies, Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund allocate money to museums on behalf of the Department.

The Mendoza Review, published in November 2017, provides some details of how ACE, HLF and Local Authority funding was split between regions between 2011/12 - 2014/15. The Review also shows that in 2016/17, the last year for which information is available, there was a total of £839m public funding in England for all museums, giving a per capita figure of £15.18.