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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) funding and (b) other resources her Department provides to support locations to prepare bids for the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tentative List.

My officials, supported by Historic England and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, have run open information sessions and workshops to provide advice and support for locations that are preparing bids for the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tentative List.

The department does not provide direct funding to sites applying for World Heritage Site status. We encourage heritage related projects to apply to grant schemes available through the Government’s Arm’s Length Bodies and partners where eligible, such as Historic England, or through the National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Heritage Memorial Fund.