Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much public funding was allocated to arts, culture and heritage organisations in each English region in each of the last five financial years by funding programme.

Expenditure by DCMS on arts, culture and heritage is published annually on https://www.gov.uk in the DCMS annual report and accounts.

Arts, culture and heritage in England are funded through a combination of public funding, National Lottery funding, private investment, and earned income.

ACE is the main public body responsible for distributing government and National Lottery funding to the arts. Details of ACE funding is published on the ACE website here: https://culture.localinsight.org/#/map and is available in their annual reports which are also published online.

Public funding for heritage is distributed through Arm’s-Length Bodies Historic England, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Churches Conservation Trust. Their annual reports and accounts are published yearly and are available online.

Further details on National Lottery funding distribution are available through the National Lottery Grants map here: https://nationallottery.dcms.gov.uk/map.