May. 17 2024
Source Page: Public Spending Statistics release: May 2024Found: Table_1 Table 1 Total Managed Expenditure, 2018-19 to 2022-23 £ million National Statistics 2018
Special Report May. 17 2024
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: At its heart is a new National Physical Activity Taskforce which brings the Government and the sector
Asked by: Damien Moore (Conservative - Southport)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department has taken to support (a) small and (b) independent theatres.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
His Majesty’s Government is committed to supporting the arts and cultural sector, including theatres. This is primarily through the Arts Council England whose funding for National Portfolio Organisations has increased to £444.6 million per annum, funding a record 985 organisations, including 214 new organisations outside of London.
Arts Council England invests in nearly 200 theatres or theatre companies that produce, commission, and present theatre, in addition to arts centres, festivals and outdoor theatre companies. These range from large theatres in cities - Liverpool Theatres, Manchester Royal Exchange, Sheffield Theatres - to smaller theatres and theatre companies often with a particular specialism, such as theatre for children, theatre with a disability focus, theatre companies that co-create with different communities or theatre companies that are designed to tour. Overall investment in theatre has increased through the current round of the Arts Council’s National Portfolio programme – both in terms of the number of organisations supported, and the volume of funding which is now more than £110 million per annum.
A number of theatres are also regularly supported through the Arts Council’s open access National Lottery Project Grants programme which has a budget of £116.8 million a year. This is a rolling programme and is open to artists and companies across the country.
Asked by: Andrew Bridgen (Independent - North West Leicestershire)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to provide support to (a) Coalville CAN and (b) other charities that provide cooking lessons for children and elderly people.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
There is a range of funding available for organisations that are working to support and improve their communities. The ‘Find a grant’ service is a search function which helps organisations search for government grants. The filtering system allows you to select grants which are open to applications from non-profits (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/find-government-grants).
The National Lottery Community Fund also hosts a number of funding programmes (https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding).
At a more local level, most areas of the country have Community Foundations that manage at least one local grant fund or can offer guidance (https://www.ukcommunityfoundations.org/)
Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) A postcode lottery on this scale for a condition that will affect one in three of us is not acceptable.The - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) National strategies should not just reflect the evidence and data for a national profile around dementia - Speech Link
3: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) One of our aims will be to gradually reduce the postcode lottery that operates within social care that - Speech Link
4: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) being met.I want us to get to a much more rigorous national target. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) This is what the Government promised with their National Disability Strategy, published in July 2021, - Speech Link
2: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) EHCP system become equitable, accessible and resolvable in reasonable time and not just a matter of lottery - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Outside London, without the wonderful black Hackney cabs, getting a taxi is a complete and utter lottery - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) to deliver national standards. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I fully support their calls for a national birth strategy.I also thank all those Members who took part - Speech Link
2: Theo Clarke (Con - Stafford) parliamentary group on birth trauma published a major report called, “Listen to Mums: Ending the Postcode Lottery - Speech Link
3: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) Stoke Mandeville Hospital in my constituency is home to the national spinal injuries centre and is the - Speech Link
4: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) I am not surprised: it turns out that, according to locals, she was sacked from the National Farmers - Speech Link
5: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) My constituent Mrs Houria Nicoll is an Algerian-British dual national. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) The individuals who supported Eilidh, including Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers and others - Speech Link
2: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) There is a postcode lottery for emergency care. - Speech Link
3: Sarwar, Anas (Lab - Glasgow) After 17 years of this Scottish National Party Government, the crisis in our national health service - Speech Link
4: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) As a consequence of that, we can fund the national health service better than if we had relied simply - Speech Link
5: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) Watch Foundation, Police Scotland, the National Cyber Security Centre and the Cyber and Fraud Centre - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mackay, Rona (SNP - Strathkelvin and Bearsden) There are issues around rates and a possible postcode lottery and I hope that the minister will address - Speech Link
2: Don, Natalie (SNP - Renfrewshire North and West) However, there are also opportunities for everyone—national Government, local government, the third sector - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) financial support—in particular to Sport England, which receives £250 million a year from government and Lottery - Speech Link
2: Lord Monks (Lab - Life peer) It is a key weapon against the burgeoning growth of obesity, which is a national crisis. - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) In total, obesity costs the National Health Service around £6.5 billion a year. - Speech Link