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CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT

Departmental Policies

(Staffordshire, Moorlands)

Charlotte Atkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will set out with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Staffordshire, Moorlands constituency, the effects on Staffordshire, Moorlands of his Department's policies and actions (a) since 2 May 1997 and (b) in the 12 months ending on 1 May 1997. [149192]

Mr. Chris Smith: Staffordshire, Moorlands has received £4,240,057 from the national lottery since 2 May 1997, and in the 12 months ending on 1 May 1997 received £935,767.

In addition, two grants totalling over £56,000 have been made from the new opportunities fund out of school hours child care programme to schools in Staffordshire, Moorlands. The first grant for £6,570 was awarded to Westwood first school to provide for 16 integrated before-school and eight integrated after-school places, for children aged 4 to 9 years old in Leek. The second grant of £50,000 was awarded to Buckingham Nursery School Ltd. This will enable the creation of 48 before-school, 48 after-school and 48 holiday club places, for children aged 5 to 14 years old. Eight schools in the area will benefit.

Eighteen millennium award winners have been identified from Staffordshire, Moorlands and between them they have received grants totalling £45,672.

Since 2 May 1997, English Heritage has awarded the following grants: £2,744 for consolidation works at Dieu la Cres Abbey; £15,288 for repair and archaeological investigation at Throwley Old Hall; £11,107 for structural repairs to the Church of St. John the Baptist, Elkstones. In the 12 months ending on 1 May 1997, English Heritage awarded the following grants; £12,046 for structural repairs to St. Bartholomew's Church, Blore Ray.

Staffordshire, Moorlands district council began a three-year partnership development funding agreement with West Midlands Arts in 1999-2000. They received £17,000 this financial year 2000-01 plus £3,000 development funding towards a review of their arts strategy. In the year 2001-02, they will be awarded £17,500.

There are of course other initiatives in the wider context of Staffordshire and the West Midlands which may have an effect on the Staffordshire, Moorlands constituency. These are:

Under the Space for Sport and the Arts (SSA) scheme, a £130 million capital programme made up of £75 million from the Capital Modernisation Fund and £55 million from Sport England, the Arts Council of England and the 3rd Round of the New Opportunities Fund, Stoke on Trent LEA has been allocated £2.2 million towards providing improved facilities for sport and arts in primary schools which can also be used by the wider community. Birmingham, Sandwell, Wolverhampton and Walsall

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LEAs have also been allocated SSA funding which means a potential inward investment of up to £10.5 million in the West Midlands region for sports and arts facilities in primary schools under this programme.

Staffordshire, Moorlands constituents will benefit from equipment to be purchased by the New Opportunities Fund cancer programme. Across the whole of the West Midlands NHS Region, over £11 million will fund seven linear accelerators; five MRI scanners; five trailers for breast screening equipment; nine ultrasound machines for breast screening; and 31 pieces of x-ray breast screening equipment.

By December 2000, over 3,400 teachers (over half) in the Staffordshire LEA had signed up for training as part of the New Opportunities Fund ICT Training for Teachers scheme.

The West Midlands Arts Board has received an additional £382, 643 from the Arts Council this year to support arts and cultural activity across the region.

Staffordshire Library Authority received an award of £49,000 from the DCMS/Wolfson Public Libraries Challenge Fund's 1998-99 programme to support ICT projects in libraries. It is not possible to say precisely what proportion of this funding was spent in the Staffordshire, Moorlands constituency. 1997-98 was the Challenge Fund's first year, no funding was available from this source before 1997.

Information on the Lottery is in accordance with the information supplied to the Department by lottery distributors for the national lottery awards database.

Departmental Policies

(Morecambe and Lunesdale)

Miss Geraldine Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will set out including statistical information relating as directly as possible to the constituency, the effect on the Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency of his Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997. [149123]

Mr. Chris Smith: Morecambe and Lunesdale has received £3,023,777 from the national lottery since 2 May 1997.

In addition, a grant worth over £12,000 has been made from the new opportunities fund out of school hours child care programme. The recipient project, the Bentham community association, will provide for 16 after-school places, and 16 holiday club places for children aged 5 to 11-years-old. The places will be in two primary schools in High Bentham, Lancaster.

Sixteen millennium award winners have been identified from Morecambe and Lunesdale and between them they have received grants totalling £42,103.

English Heritage awarded a grant of £5,000 to Lancaster city council towards a development appraisal for the Victoria Pavilion (formerly the Winter Gardens), Morecambe. This is towards a total cost of £14,795 excluding VAT. The final report is awaited and is expected to provide a strategy for future use and development.

More Music in Morecambe has received three awards from the National Foundation for Youth Music. This was £8,500 for Singing Challenge, £184,000 to repair musical instruments donated to the organisation as part of Youth Music's instrument amnesty and £145,000 for the North Lancashire youth music action zone. The zone will provide a range of music opportunities to young people throughout the north-west.

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The creative industries have impacted on the area and this is exemplified through the development of initiatives to support professional artists living and working in Morecambe and Lunesdale. There is now an active network of artists within Lunesdale who have benefited from support through Leader II funding in partnership with neighbouring authorities.

Lancashire Library Authority (which includes Morecambe and Lunesdale libraries) was part of a consortium which received an award of £215,992 from the DCMS/Wolfson public libraries challenge fund's 2000-01 programme to support reader development work in libraries. There were 18 partners in the consortium--North West Libraries Book Promotion Partnership--it is not possible to say what proportion of funding is being spent in the Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency.

There are of course other initiatives in the wider context of Lancashire which may have an effect on the Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency. These are:

Under the Space for Sport the Arts (SSA) scheme, a £130 million capital programme made up of £75 million from the Capital Modernisation Fund and £55 million from Sport England, the Arts Council of England and the third round of the New Opportunities Fund, Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen LEAs have been allocated £1.75 million and £1.25 million respectively towards providing improved facilities for sport and arts in primary schools which can also be used by the wider community.

Liverpool, Manchester, Cumbria, Knowsley, Salford, Rochdale, Trafford, Wirral and St. Helens LEAs have also been allocated SSA funding which means a potential inward investment of up to £22 million in the north-west region for sport and arts facilities in primary schools under this programme.

Morecambe and Lunesdale constituents will benefit from equipment to be purchased by the New Opportunities Fund cancer programme. Across the whole of the North West NHS Region, over £10 million will fund: nine linear accelerators; four MRI scanners; five trailers for breast screening equipment; six ultrasound machines for breast screening; and 27 pieces of x-ray breast screening equipment.

By December 2000, over 2,000 teachers (approximately one in five) in the Lancashire LEA had signed up for training as part of the New Opportunities Fund ICT Training for Teachers scheme.

The North West Arts Board has received an additional £493,877 from the Arts Council this year to support arts and cultural activity across the region.

Creative industries projects involve a collaborative venture between Lancaster and neighbouring Objective II designated areas to establish support services and networking opportunities for creative industries SMEs.

Information on the national lottery is in accordance with the information supplied to the Department by lottery distributors for the national lottery awards database.

Departmental Policies (Tooting)

Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will set out with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the Tooting parliamentary constituency, the effect of his Department's policies and actions since 1 May 1997. [149861]

Mr. Chris Smith: Tooting constituency has received £5,214,274 from the national lottery since 2 May 1997. This includes one award from the millennium festival totalling £40,000.

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In addition, the new opportunities fund out of school hours child care programme have made the following grants:

£283,784 to the Trojans scheme--to create a total of 48 breakfast, 274 after school and 299 holiday places for children aged 4-15 years in the Lambeth, Wandsworth and Kingston area. Nine local schools will benefit. A further grant of £34,750 to the Trojans Scheme--to create a new centre combining the Telferscot and Henry Cavendish primary school sites. The project would provide 80 new, integrated after school and holiday places for children aged 5-11 and those in reception class. The schools served would be Telferscot Primary and Henry Cavendish Primary.

£23,945 to the Brocklebank Nursery--to create 24 holiday, 24 breakfast and 20 after-school places, for children aged 3-11 in Wandsworth.

£14,115 to the A&R after school club--this applicant is a voluntary organisation which currently provides an after school and homework club. It employs four part-time staff. The grant will extend the current scheme to 30 places and set up 15 breakfast places and 30 holiday places. Ten of these places will be for integrated child care and learning. The project will cater for children aged 3-11 in the Streatham area. The schools benefiting are Franciscan, Furzedown, Penworthy Street, Leonard's and St. Anselm's RC Primaries.

The new opportunities fund has also awarded £900,100 to the Tooting healthy living initiative--this is a new project that has six distinct activity areas aimed at targeting health inequalities in the area with a particular focus on the health of ethnic minorities. The fund's out of school hours learning programme has awarded £11,000 to the Wandle primary school--this will make a study centre available to all students to help them complete their homework as well as offering a programme of activities.

Twenty five millennium award winners have been identified from Tooting and between them they have received grants totalling £93,278.

Music for Youth, Wandsworth has received £25,350 from the National Foundation for Youth Music Awards Scheme. This grant will enable those young people outside mainstream education to get involved in the national festival in rock and pop music by bringing teachers, students, organisations and musicians together to work towards creating a validated programme of learning in this sector of music. As part of the national festival of music for youth in July 2001, a rock and pop forum will be created, including workshops and performances. Groups will be selected from throughout the UK.

Wandsworth Library Authority (which includes Tooting libraries) received an award of £50,000 from the DCMS/Wolfson public libraries challenge fund's 1997-98 programme to support ICT projects in libraries. It is not possible to say precisely what proportion of funding was spent in the Tooting constituency.

From 1 April 1999, Tooting residents under 16 were able to benefit from free admission to the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Imperial War Museum, HMS Belfast, the Cabinet War Rooms, the Natural Maritime Museum and the Museum of London. From 1 April 2000, Tooting residents over 60 were able to gain free admission to most of those.

Ernest Bevin school in Tooting was awarded specialist sport college status jointly with Southfield community college--both in Wandsworth local education authority.

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There are of course other initiatives in the wider context of Greater London which may have an effect on the Tooting constituency. These include:

Under the Space for Sport and Arts (SSA) scheme, a £130 million capital programme made up of £75 million from the Capital Modernisation Fund and £55 million from Sport England, the Arts Council of England and the third Round of New Opportunities Fund, a number of local education authorities in Greater London have been allocated funding towards providing improved facilities for sport and arts in primary schools which can also be used by the wider community. There is therefore a potential inward investment of up £16.75 million in the London region under this programme.

Tooting residents will benefit from equipment to be purchased by the New Opportunities Fund Cancer programme. Across the whole of the London region, over £12 million will fund: 11 linear accelerators; four MRI scanners; ten trailers for breast screening equipment; three ultrasound machines for breast screening; and 30 pieces of x-ray breast screening equipment.

London Arts has received an additional £981,583 from the Arts Council this year to support arts and cultural activity across the region.

Information on the national lottery is in accordance with the information supplied to the Department by the lottery distributors for the national lottery awards database.

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