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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information her Department holds on how much funding the National Trust received through competitive grant schemes administered by her Department and its arm's-length bodies in financial years (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2021-22, (d) 2022-23 and (e) 2023-24.

Historic England, National Heritage Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund funded National Trust through the following competitive exchequer and lottery funded grants across the period requested:

FY 19/20 – £4,205,285 across three schemes

FY 20/21 - £10,978,779 across seven schemes

FY 21/22 - £6,873,014 across seven schemes

FY 22/23 – £1,142,516 across two schemes

FY 23/24 - £505,186 across three schemes (Note this is YTD and does not include schemes that may come into the pipeline before FY close).

FY’s 20-22 show an increase in funding schemes due to specialist COVID 19 interventions.

No direct funding was made by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Core.