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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Key Fund - Northern Cultural Regeneration Fund 2021.

The department sets objectives for grant funding when designing the grant scheme and allocates funding in accordance with those objectives. A full impact report for the ‘Northern Cultural Regeneration Fund - Social Investment Fund’ is expected in 2024, however an interim impact summary in 2020 demonstrated that the fund had supported 26 businesses across six different impact themes, within 10 of the 11 Northern Local Enterprise Partnerships, and leveraged £600,000 in non-governmental funding.