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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people have been awarded funds through the Public Lending Right scheme in the last 12 months.

Sums payable under the Public Lending Right (PLR) Scheme are paid retrospectively in relation to the PLR loans year, which runs from 1 July to 30 June. The most recent payments were made in February 2015 in relation to the 2013-14 loans year, with 22,051 people receiving payment. Such recipients included both authors and assignees, in the latter case usually following the death of a registered author.