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Welfare Tax Credits

Anne Main: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent progress has made in the resolution of the tax credits case of Mr. Morgan of St. Albans constituency; and if he will make a statement. [158571]

Kitty Ussher: A detailed response was sent to Mr. Morgan on the 25 September.

Culture, Media and Sport

Arts Council of England: Finance

Jeff Ennis: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what (a) grant-in-aid and (b) National Lottery funding was allocated to the Arts Council England (ACE) in each of the last five years; and how much ACE awarded to brass bands in the same period. [Official Report, 6 December 2007, Vol. 468, c. 8MC.] [157098]

Margaret Hodge: This information is shown in the table:

£000
	Grant in a id (revenue)	National Lottery	Awards made by ACE to brass bands( 1)
2002-03	289,000	178,000	217
2003-04	325,000	161,000	209
2004-05	368,000	169,000	200
2005-06	412,000	171,000	219
2006-07	412,000	157,000	367
(1 )Figures include both Grant in Aid and National Lottery funding.

Arts: Finance

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many arts organisations in each London (a) constituency and (b) borough received Arts Council England funding in each of the last five years. [158787]

Margaret Hodge: This information is shown in the following table:

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Borough	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08( 1)	Total
Barking and Dagenham	2	2	2	1	2	9
Barnet	7	6	7	11	5	36
Bexley	0	0	0	1	0	1
Brent	10	11	12	10	8	51
Bromley	3	5	0	2	1	11
Camden	61	73	58	63	39	294
City of London	6	10	7	5	4	32
Croydon	10	8	10	4	4	36
Ealing	6	7	8	6	3	30
Enfield	6	5	4	6	3	24
Greenwich	16	19	19	11	10	75
Hackney	57	72	70	57	40	296
Hammersmith and Fulham	19	22	14	16	10	81
Haringey	9	18	24	19	10	80
Harrow	5	6	9	6	2	28
Havering	2	2	3	4	2	13
Hillingdon	3	4	5	2	2	16
Hounslow	7	6	9	6	5	33
Islington	63	69	76	63	44	315
Kensington and Chelsea	23	27	26	30	12	118
Kingston upon Thames	3	6	5	4	2	20
Lambeth	54	64	64	58	39	279
Lewisham	20	17	18	21	13	89
Merton	6	3	4	4	1	18
Newham	9	8	8	8	7	40
Redbridge	2	2	2	2	1	9
Richmond upon Thames	11	6	9	7	3	36
Southwark	58	61	72	56	42	289
Sutton	0	1	2	0	0	3
Tower Hamlets	61	65	76	62	47	311
Waltham Forest	12	5	6	7	5	35
Wandsworth	30	28	30	23	17	128
Westminster	63	68	83	78	49	341
Total	644	706	742	653	432	3,177
(1) 2007-08 figures are lower as they only include organisations that have received grants for the arts funding for the first half of the year.

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