Churches: Finance
(asked on 5th May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been provided by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and its predecessor bodies to Christian places of worship excluding cathedrals in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last five financial years.
Since the financial year 2018-19, a total of £99,701,003 has been awarded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to Christian places of worship across the UK which are not cathedrals. The annual breakdown is as follows, with a more detailed breakdown included in the table below.
In 2018-19, £42 million was provided to England, £1.4 million to Scotland, £1.7 million to Wales and £900,000 to Northern Ireland.
In 2019-20, £20 million was provided to England, £360,000 to Scotland, £1.2 million to Wales and £1.7 million Northern Ireland.
In 2020-21, £7 million was provided to England, £240,000 to Scotland, £380,000 to Wales and £109,000 to Northern Ireland.
In 2021-22, £11.3 million was provided to England, £140,000 to Wales and £200,000 to Northern Ireland.
In 2022-23, £9.3 million was provided to England, £20,000 to Scotland, £1.4 million to Wales and £611,000 to Northern Ireland.
| 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 | 2022-2023 | Grand Total |
England | £41,968,119 | £20,307,609 | £6,870,591 | £11,266,819 | £9,337,623 | £89,750,761 |
Wales | £1,725,000 | £1,151,900 | £370,700 | £137,701 | £1,133,727 | £4,519,028 |
Scotland | £1,360,000 | £350,900 | £243,700 | £0 | £20,318 | £1,974,918 |
Northern Ireland | £866,800 | £1,650,900 | £109,300 | £218,568 | £610,728 | £3,456,296 |
Grand Total | £45,919,919 | £23,461,309 | £7,594,291 | £11,623,088 | £11,102,396 | £99,701,003 |
This information can be found on the National Lottery database, a publicly available source of National Lottery data.