Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what funding his Department has allocated to arts and culture projects in St Helens Council in each of the last five years.
As outlined in the table, since April 2013, Arts Council England has invested over £1 million in arts and culture projects in St Helens North including, National Lottery Grants for the Arts, Project Grants and through Music Education Hubs.
| 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 to date |
National Portfolio Organisations | £ - | £ - | £ - | £ - | £ - | £ 460,000 |
Music Education Hubs | £ 196,771 | £ 198,850 | £ 258,548 | £ 255,889 | £ 252,312 | £ 252,419 |
GFTA/PG | £ 177,138 | £ 185,254 | £ 75,580 | £ 87,526 | £ 44,800 | £ 14,961 |
Strategic Funding/Other | £ 628,296 | £ - | £ 871,704 | £ 1,651,550 | £ - | £ - |
Total | £ 1,002,205 | £ 384,104 | £ 1,205,832 | £ 1,994,965 | £ 297,112 | £ 727,380 |