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Lottery Terminals
Mr. Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many Dome tickets have been sold through Lottery terminals. [101513]
Janet Anderson [holding answer 7 December 1999]: NMEC is keen to encourage visitors, from all parts of the UK, to the Dome in 2000. Ticket sales and reservations are running ahead of NMEC's expectations and, at over one million, are outstripping advance sales for other worldwide visitor attractions. The company is concerned not to affect the on-going success of ticket sales through publication of selected and piecemeal statistics at this stage. It is competing in the crowded and highly commercial marketplace of visitor attractions and its competitors do not publish detailed statistics of forward sales in the formats that have been requested. However, NMEC has informed the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport, on a commercially confidential basis, of progress on ticket sales and will provide, periodically, further progress reports as requested by the Committee. The company will release details in February 2000 of attendance at the Dome during January 2000, and on a monthly basis thereafter.
Cinemas (Preservation Order)
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the cinemas in England and Wales that have a preservation order on them. [103169]
Janet Anderson: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has the power to list buildings in England; the responsibility for listing buildings in Wales rests with the Welsh National Assembly. Local planning authorities can serve Building Preservation Notices (BPNs) in respect of buildings which are not listed, but which they consider are of special architectural or historic interest and are under threat. BPNs remain in force for six months during which the Secretary of State must decide whether to list the building concerned. There are no such cases currently before him.
There are 123 listed cinema buildings in England; English Heritage recently launched a public consultation in respect of a further 30 cinema buildings which it has identified as having the potential for listing. The consultation period lasts until 1 March next year, after which English Heritage will submit its recommendations to the Secretary of State for decision.
London Art Market
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the impact of prospective taxes on the London art market. [103837]
Dr. Howells:
I have been asked to reply.
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I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 26 November 1999, Official Report, columns 217-18W .
Mr. Alasdair Morgan:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will estimate the expenditure on football ground improvements involving grant and loan aid from the Football Trust in each year from 1988, broken down by ground. [103756]
Kate Hoey:
£250 million of grant aid has been awarded to clubs for ground development projects since the Government began to contribute to funding of the Football Trust in 1990 through a reduction in pool duty. The decisions by the Trust on payments have been placed in both Libraries of the House since that date. Information on Trust grant payments from 1988-90 is available from the Trust itself.
Mr. Alasdair Morgan:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will estimate the amount of Government grants to the Football Trust in each year from 1988. [103757]
Kate Hoey:
The Government have provided funding to the Football Trust through a reduction in pool betting duty since 1990. The Trust has received the following amounts:
| £ million | |
|---|---|
| 1990-91 | 18.7 |
| 1991-92 | 20.4 |
| 1992-93 | 21.1 |
| 1993-94 | 22.6 |
| 1994-95 | 22.8 |
| 1995-96 | 15.9 |
| 1996-97 | 13.6 |
| 1997-98 | 10.1 |
| 1998-99 | 7.8 |
Source:
The Football Trust
Overseas Visitors
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what representations he has received on the number of overseas visitors to the UK in each of the last three years. [102016]
Janet Anderson [holding answer 20 December 1999]: I am not aware of specific representations. The numbers were 25.2 million in 1996, 25.5 million in 1997 and 25.7 million in 1998.
Lottery Funding
Mr. Dawson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the successful bids from churches and other religious institutions for grants to assist capital works under the various lottery applications since May 1997. [103097]
Mr. Alan Howarth
[holding answer 20 December 1999]: According to the latest information from the lottery distributors, to date 488 awards totalling £79,737,219 have gone to capital projects which are directly attributable to churches and other religious institutions. I have placed a full list in the Libraries of the House.
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Mr. Alasdair Morgan:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the Government grant support given to Sport England and its predecessor body for each of the years from 1994 to 1999. [103874]
Kate Hoey:
Sport England was established by Royal Charter on 19 September 1996 and became fully operational on 1 January 1997. Since then its grant in aid has been:
| Year | £ million |
|---|---|
| 1996-97 | (1)15.7 |
| 1997-98 | 33.7 |
| 1998-99 | 33.5 |
| 1999-2000 | (1)34.5 |
(1) From 1 January 1997
(1) Allocation
| Year | £ million |
|---|---|
| 1993-94 | 50.6 |
| 1994-95 | 49.4 |
| 1995-96 | 49.2 |
| 1996-97(1) | 27.7 |
(1) Up to 31 December 1996
Parliamentary Questions
Mr. Jon Owen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the obstacles that have prevented his Department from answering any of the questions tabled by the hon. Member for Cardiff, Central since 8 November about ticket sales for the Millennium Experience. [103601]
Janet Anderson [holding answer 20 December 1999]: I have answered the questions tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, Central (Mr. Jones) about ticket sales for the Millennium Experience in as open a way as possible and I remain grateful for his interest in the project.
NMEC is keen to encourage visitors, from all parts of the UK, to the Dome in 2000. Ticket sales and reservations are running ahead of NMEC's expectations and, at over 1 million, are outstripping advance sales for other worldwide visitor attractions. The company is concerned not to affect the on-going success of ticket sales through publication of selected and piecemeal statistics at this stage. It is competing in the crowded and highly commercial marketplace of visitor attractions and its competitors do not publish detailed statistics of forward sales in the formats that have been requested. However, NMEC has informed the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport, on a commercially confidential basis, of progress on ticket sales and will provide, periodically, further progress reports as requested by the Committee. The company will release details in February 2000 of attendance at the Dome during January 2000, and on a monthly basis thereafter.
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Kali Mountford:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what representations he has received about refunds for television licence stamps already purchased by people aged over 75 years. [103637]
Kate Hoey:
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has received 12 letters from Members of the House of Commons and seven from members of the public about refunds of television licence savings stamps purchased by people aged 75 or over. Any television licence savings stamps not required to purchase a licence can be redeemed, by post, from TV Licensing. We intend to announce full details of the scheme, including the precise starting date, early in the new year.
Mr. Salter:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the overseas visits made by my hon. Friend the Member for West Ham (Mr. Banks) in his capacity as the Prime Minister's Envoy to the 2006 World Cup campaign; and if he will list those members of the FIFA Executive the hon. Member for West Ham has met since taking on his new role. [103124]
Kate Hoey:
The information requested by my hon. Friend has been supplied by the FA 2006 bid team and is as follows:
| Country visited | FIFA executive member(s) met |
|---|---|
| Zurich | Joseph S. Blatter (FIFA President) |
| Kuala Lumpur | Mohamed Bin Hammam (Qatar) |
| Worawi Makudi (Thailand) | |
| Dr. Chung Mong-Joon (Korea) | |
| Saudi Arabia and Qatar | Mohamed Bin Hammam (Qatar) |
| Thailand | Worawi Makudi (Thailand) |
| New Zealand | Charles Dempsey (New Zealand) |
| Lennart Johansson (Sweden) | |
| Julio Grondona (Argentina) | |
| David Will (Scotland) | |
| Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) | |
| Dr. Joseph Mifsud (Malta) | |
| Senes Erzik (Turkey) | |
| Jack Warner (Trinidad and Tobago) | |
| Angel Maria Villar Llona (Spain) | |
| U.S.A. | Chuck Blazer (U.S.A.) |
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