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 Heritage Policy 2021 Grant.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport sets objectives for grant funding when designing grant schemes and allocates funding in accordance with those objectives. The department and its public bodies deliver all grant funding in line with the Government Functional Standard GovS 015: Grants.

The Heritage Policy 2021 Grant covers three grants we provide to heritage organisations: Marlborough House, Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust, and the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Each of these grants is provided for various reasons, including but not limited to supporting essential maintenance and repairs works across the sites.