Culture Recovery Fund: West Yorkshire

(asked on 29th June 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Culture Recovery Fund in supporting (a) businesses and (b) freelancers in (i) the Morley and Outwood constituency and (ii) West Yorkshire.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 5th July 2021

The Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to date, has seen over £1.2 billion awarded to over 5,000 organisations and sites, with 70% of grant funding going outside of London.

While freelancers have been supported through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, which has so far helped 2.8m self employed people, it is also the case that the CRF had significant indirect benefits for freelancers. In Round 2, organisations were asked to estimate how many FTEs and freelancers were protected by the fund until the end of June. Collectively, applicants reported that 52,000 full time staff and almost 100,000 freelancers would be supported until the end of June.

The Morley and Outwood constituency has currently received £55,000 of awards from the fund, while West Yorkshire as a whole has seen over £49m of support through the CRF. The organisations in West Yorkshire supported through CRF2 have self-reported that these grants will help them to support over 2,500 freelancers until the end of June.

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