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Mr. Hoyle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what resources for (a) youth cricket, (b) Rugby League, (c) Rugby Union, (d) track and field sports and (e) swimming were made available for the current financial year and will be made available in the next financial year. [105104]
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Kate Hoey:
My Department's funding for sport is channelled primarily through the Sports Councils: Sport England and UK Sport. The resources made available by the two Sports Councils is as follows:
Financial year | Exchequer grant (£) | Lottery Community Project funding (8)(9) (£) | |
---|---|---|---|
Cricket(10) | 1999-2000 | 216,220 | 4,468,279 |
2000-01 | 288,550 | -- | |
Rugby League | 1999-2000 | 338,250 | 1,481,651 |
2000-01 | 250,000 | -- | |
Rugby Union | 1999-2000 | 251,667 | 5,130,915 |
2000-01 | 335,833 | -- | |
Track and Field | 1999-2000 | 41,666 | 6,482,107 |
2000-01 | 337,000 | -- | |
Swimming | 1999-2000 | 314,000 | 17,778,329 |
2000-01 | 315,000 | -- |
(8) It is not possible to provide details of funds that will be made available to these sports for the remainder of this or the next financial year as there is no prior allocation of Lottery Community Project funding, which is application led.
(9) 1 April 1999 to 30 November 1999.
(10) Precise details of funding for "youth cricket" are not available. However in most cases, if not all, the awards made to cricket will benefit youth in some way.
Exchequer grants | Lottery revenue funding(11) | |
---|---|---|
Athletics | ||
1 January 1999-31 December 1999 | 490,000 | 9,487,699 |
1 January 2000-31 December 2000 | To be agreed | -- |
Swimming | ||
1 October 1999-30 September 2000 | 230,000 | 5,399,656 |
1 October 2000-30 September 2001 | To be agreed | -- |
(11) Made available from 1 May 1998
£ | |
---|---|
Cricket | 231,000 |
Rugby League | 305,000 |
Rugby Union | 607,000 |
Athletics | 36,000 |
Swimming | 15,000 |
My Department will provide £3.373 million to Sportsmatch both this and the next financial year, of which approximately £2.9 million will be directly spent on awards. It is not possible to provide figures for each of these sports as awards to the individual sports vary from year to year and the process is application led.
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Mr. Hoyle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assistance his Department provides to Olympic swimmers. [105086]
Kate Hoey:
From 1 October 1999 to January 2000 the Amateur Swimming Association of Great Britain was awarded £396,029 towards the Programme costs for these swimmers which includes training at home and abroad, access to equipment and facilities, and coaching. In addition to this the swimmers themselves were awarded approximately £224,876 in subsistence support. This support will continue, the next funding period will run from 1 February 2000 to 30 September 2000, with the precise details to be agreed shortly. The final squad selection for the Sydney Olympics will be made on 30 July 2000. Currently 47 elite swimmers are supported by UK Sport and Sport England under the Lottery funded World Class Performance Programme.
Mr. Hoyle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many local authority running tracks there are in Lancashire. [105106]
Kate Hoey:
There are 19 local authority running tracks in Lancashire.
Mr. Hoyle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many district authority areas in England do not have all-weather running tracks. [105105]
Kate Hoey:
Of the 366 district authorities, there are 194 without all-weather running tracks.
Mr. Hoyle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what revenue was generated by the exports of (a) animated films and (b) all films produced in the UK in the last year for which figures are available. [105046]
Janet Anderson:
Receipts from abroad to film companies in the UK totalled £581 million in 1998. This figure relates to all films and is not broken down by genre. Separate figures for animated films are not therefore available.
Mr. Hoyle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what is his estimate of the number of animated films to be made in the United Kingdom in 2000; [105092]
(3) how many people are employed in the animated film industry. [105044]
Janet Anderson:
This information is not available. However, production spend on animation in the UK is around £200 million annually, which supports some 350 independent companies. These range in size from one or two-person outfits creating small-scale experimental works, to large set ups producing multi-episode series for major broadcasters such as Channel 4, BBC and Granada. Animated product is provided across the whole spectrum of the audiovisual industries in the UK, from
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commercials, television, feature films and corporate videos to the new industries dealing with websites and computer games.
Mr. Hoyle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what grants are available to support the production of animated films; [105090]
Janet Anderson:
Public funds for the support of the film industry, including film production will, from 1 April, be channelled through the Film Council. This support will comprise grant-in-aid from my Department and a dedicated percentage of National Lottery proceeds. Over the next three years the Film Council will have about £150 million at its disposal to support the film industry and film culture. It will be for the Council itself to determine the appropriate form and level of support for animation, within its overall strategy for developing a sustainable UK film industry.
Mr. Hoyle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of likely growth in the production of films in the UK in the next five years. [105045]
Janet Anderson:
My Department does not make forecasts of film production levels. The past decade has seen considerable fluctuation in the numbers of films produced in the UK, from a low of 47 in 1992 to a high of 128 in 1996. The first five years of the decade saw a total of 317 productions with the last five years totalling 479. With the policies we have been implementing over the past three years to build on and sustain this upward trend I fully expect the current levels of film production activity to at least be maintained over the next five years.
Mr. Hoyle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will take steps to encourage the Royal Ballet to make tours to all the English regions. [105043]
Mr. Alan Howarth:
In 2000-01 English National Ballet will receive over £4.1 million from the Arts Council of England to tour extensively throughout England.
Their grant from the Arts Council enables the company to visit a selection of English cities every season. For example, the full company has recently toured to Oxford, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent and London. In addition, the company divides into two and has recently toured to smaller towns and cities including Barnstaple, Barrow-in-Furness, Bexhill-on-Sea, Blackpool, Cambridge, Cheltenham, Crawley, Crewe, Poole, Richmond, Scunthorpe, Swindon, Truro, Tunbridge Wells and Woking.
Mr. Hoyle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what funding his Department has made available to increase the number of tourists to the North West. [105050]
Janet Anderson:
The North West region currently receives an allocation of funds for tourism from the English Tourism Council. More funds will be made
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available from the next financial year for the support of tourism in the regions and more work will be undertaken at regional levels to deliver the actions in Tomorrow's Tourism. The overall North West Region, as all other regions, will also benefit from other funds such as lottery funding, the Single Regeneration Budget and European Regional Development Budget.
(2) how many animated films were made in the United Kingdom in each of the last five years; [105093]
(2) what support his Department gives to the animated film industry. [105091]
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