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Departmental Spending
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the percentage spending by her Department per person was in (a) the Chorley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) England in the last year for which figures are available; and which constituency received the highest spend per person. [104073]
Dr. Howells: As the Department for Culture, Media and Sport allocates funding on a regional and national level it is not possible to give the figures requested. In 2001–02 the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's total direct spend on the North West region was £42,890.73. This funding was allocated on a region wide basis to the North West Regional Cultural Consortium. Spending on the North West Regional Cultural Consortium represented 21 per cent. of total spend (£205,493.46) on Regional Cultural Consortiums in England.
Film Industry
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on Government support for the UK film industry. [104249]
Dr. Howells: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 12 March 2003, Official Report, columns 316–17W.
Lottery
Mr. Whittingdale: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was in the National Lottery Distribution Fund Reserve in each month since the inception of the National Lottery. [105014]
Mr. Caborn: The information requested is not available in the requested format over the entire period in question. Up to and including 1996–97, the figure for the size of the NLDF balance was collated only at the end of the 3rd and 4th quarters of the financial year. The following table gives these figures and the monthly totals from 1997–98 onwards.
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Mr. Whittingdale: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what measures she is taking to reduce the amount on the National Lottery Distribution Fund Reserve. [105015]
Mr. Caborn: At the end of February 2003, the overall National Lottery Distribution Fund (NLDF) balance stood at £3.24 billion, the lowest end of month total since October 1997. In addition, at the end of December 2002, the distributors collectively had made commitments totalling £3.74 billion, significantly in excess of the amount held in the fund. This level of over commitment shows that the money resident in the NLDF does not constitute a 'reserve'.
DCMS is actively working with the distributing bodies to further reduce the amount of money held in the NLDF. It is revising the Financial Directions issued
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to distributing bodies to allow the more rapid transfer of grants to their recipients. It also plans to issue guidance to all distributors about balance management, asking distributing bodies to publish their own NLDF balance management policies, with targets for future balance levels.
Mr. Whittingdale: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what has been the total amount paid in interest on the National Lottery Distribution Fund Reserve in each of the last five years; and how this money has been spent. [105016]
Mr. Caborn: The information requested is shown, for the past five completed years, in the following table.
| £000 | |
|---|---|
| 2001–02 | 182,948 |
| 2000–01 | 220,166 |
| 1999–2000 | 185,857 |
| 1998–99 | 245,189 |
| 1997–98 | 212,556 |
Section 32 of the National Lottery etc Act 1993 governs the investment of the National Lottery Distribution Fund balance. The balance is invested by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and the interest earned is added in proportion to the totals available for allocation by each of the distributing bodies. The Exchequer does not benefit in any way from these investments.
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what proportion of National Lottery grants were awarded in (a) Bury St. Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) the East of England. [104802]
Mr. Caborn: According to the information supplied to us by the distributing bodies for the National Lottery awards database, the Bury St. Edmunds constituency has been awarded 0.17 per cent. of the total amount of Lottery funding since the Lottery's inception. Suffolk has received 0.70 per cent. and the East of England has received 4.31 per cent. of Lottery funding during the same period.
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the spending per head of population for National Lottery grants was in (a) Bury St. Edmunds, (c) Suffolk and (c) the East of England in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [104803]
Mr. Caborn: According to the information supplied to us by the distributing bodies for the National Lottery awards database, the Bury St. Edmunds constituencyhas been awarded £19.03 per Capita between 1 March 2002 and 28 February 2003. As we do not hold population details for all Counties or Regions we are unable to provide per Capita data for these areas. However, Suffolk has been awarded £5,099,745 in Lottery funding and the East of England £55,560,282 between 1 March 2002 and 28 February 2003.
Physical Activity
Mr. Whittingdale: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate she has
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made of the average time spent on sport and physical activity by those aged five to 16 in each of the last five years. [105012]
Mr. Caborn: A recent Sport England research study, conducted by MORI, "Young People and Sport in England: Trends in participation 1994–2002", revealed that seven out of 10 young people considered themselves to be a "sporty type of person" and are now inclined to participate in sport or exercise for an average of 8.1 hours a week outside school lessons, compared with 7.5 hours in 1999. The study also provided details of the average time spent in PE lessons, by years 2 (aged 7)–11 (aged 16), per week. The information covered the years 1994, 1999 and 2002, and is set out in the following table:
| 1994 Yrs 2–11 | 1999 Yrs 2–11 | 2002 Yrs 2–11 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Less than 30 mins | — | — | 1 |
| 30 to 59 mins | 5 | 18 | 6 |
| 1 hr to 1 hr 29 mins | 22 | 22 | 20 |
| 1 hr 30 to 1 hr 59 mins | 27 | 26 | 25 |
| 2 hrs to 2 hrs 29 mins | 34 | 22 | 38 |
| 2 hrs 30 to 2 hrs 59 mins | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| 3 hrs or more | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| 2 hrs or more | 46 | 33 | 49 |
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