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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much funding has gone to national portfolio organisations exclusively involved in opera in the last 10 years.

Over the past 10 years, funding outlined in the attached table has been provided to national portfolio organisations exclusively involved in 'opera'. For the purpose of this response, 'Opera' has been defined as staged music theatre productions, often with continuous music, where the music is the main dramatic driver.