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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the geographical equity of funding provided by the National Lottery Community Fund.

The National Lottery Community Fund distributes funds to a wide geographical spread of projects, primarily delivered by the voluntary and community sector and social enterprises. Funds are distributed on the basis of need, taking into account relative population sizes and levels of economic and social deprivation.