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Big Lottery Fund: Grants
Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what projects were awarded money by the Big Lottery Fund in Wirral South in each of the last five years. [179645]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The list of projects awarded money by the Big Lottery Fund in Wirral South in each of the last five years is as follows:
Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
Irby Golf Club Junior Section
Cheshire Wildlife Trust—Wirral Wildlife
Belvidere Centre/Wallasey Spastics and Physical Handicapped Association
Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
Barnstondale Centre
25(th) Birkenhead Scout Group
Bebington Citizens Advice Bureau Limited
The Lyndale School
Caldy Mini Rugby Club
Bebington Centre for Voluntary Service
Heygarth Primary School
Birkenhead Phab Club
Heroes Return (19 awards)
The Merchant Navy—Wirral Branch
Stick n Step
Bebington 2(nd) Scouts
Dusted
Thornton Hough Women’s Institute
Merseyside Squash Rackets Association
Bebington High Sports College (Wirral LEA)
Claire House Children’s Hospice
Stanton Estate Residents Association
Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Team Wirral Tracs
Upton By Chester and District Parish Council
The Cheshire Regiment Association Birkenhead and District Branch
Heroes Return (five awards)
Foxfield School Parent Teachers Association
Stick n Step
Royal British Legion Port Sunlight Branch
Wirral Urban Farm Association
Liverpool Victoria Rowing Club
Thornton Hough Women’s Institute
Royal British Legion West Cheshire and District
Bromborough U3A
Higher Bebington Royal British Legion Social Club Limited
Bebington Road Allotment Society
Royal British Legion (Willaston-in-Wirral Branch)
The Pensby and Kylemore Community Centres Association
Thornton Hough Village Hall
Bebington Citizens Advice Bureau Limited
Royal Engineers Association Birkenhead Branch
West Kirby Lions Club
Merseyside Asylum Seekers and Refuges Pre and Post Natal Support Group
The Bidston Preservation Trust
Crossroads in Wirral, Caring for Carers Ltd
Eastham Blades Junior Football Club
Nothing Rhymes with Poets
Caldy Mini Rugby Club
Bebington University of the Third Age
Royal Engineers Association Chester Branch
Wirral Pathfinders
The Heswall Society
The Friends of Flaybrick Society
Meadowside School
Eastham Women’s Institute
Bebington Day Centre Club
Royal Army Ordnance Corps Association (Merseyside Branch)
Wirral Sapphires Majorette Troupe
South Wirral High School
Clare Mount School
Bebington High Sports College SSCO
Wirral Urban Farm Association
10(th) Birkenhead Scout Group
Mersey Basin Business Foundation
Friends of Dibbinsdale Local Nature Reserve
Weatherhead High School Media Arts College
Bebington Road Allotment Society
Millfields Primary School
Kings Regiment Association Liverpool
Stanton Road Primary School
Ellesmere Port Panthers Basketball Club
Port Sunlight Rugby Football Club Limited
Big Lottery Fund: Public Participation
Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people voted for each project competing in the Big Lottery Fund People’s £50 million Lottery contest. [179749]
Mr. Sutcliffe: A break down of votes registered for each project competing in the Big Lottery Fund People’s £50 million Lottery contest is listed in the following table:
| Project | Number of votes | Percentage of total vote |
Corporate hospitality
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on how many occasions he has accepted corporate hospitality in the last 12 months. [171317]
Margaret Hodge: Chapter 7 of the Ministerial Code sets out the rules on the registration of hospitality.
Departmental Recycling
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what weight of paper his Department recycled in each of the last five years. [179460]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Department does not hold records for the last five years.
The Department introduced a new waste management system at its Cockspur street offices in January 2007.
The weight of recycled paper in 2007 was 52.24 tonnes.
National Lottery
Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will assess the appropriateness of deciding the allocation of lottery funding according to the results of telephone and e-mail votes. [178519]
Mr. Sutcliffe: People who play the lottery deserve to have a greater say in how lottery money is used. Telephone and e-mail voting is only one of the many ways that people are able to become involved in deciding where local lottery money is spent.
Not all lottery grants will be decided in this way, but is important that people have a genuine opportunity to influence where local lottery funding goes.
Lottery distributors are working together to identify best practice and to develop options for increasing public involvement in decisions about lottery funding themes and local lottery spending.
Olympic Games 2012
Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what he expects as the sporting legacy of the 2012 Olympics to be for Northern Ireland. [174910]
James Purnell: Sports policy in Northern Ireland, including the sporting legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, is a devolved matter, and is the responsibility of the Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure. His officials participate fully in the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic games (LOCOG) Nations and Regions Group and all other associated steering groups.
Sports: Databases
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the total cost to public funds was of the Active Places database in each year for which figures are available. [178943]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The initial costs for Active Places for the first three years between 2004 and 2007 was £5.2 million. The budget for the current financial year 2007-08 is £1.1 million which is spent on data maintenance, data acquisition, systems development and hosting.
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the percentage of all UK sports facilities that are currently on the Active Places database; and if he will make a statement. [178944]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Unfortunately it is not possible to estimate the percentage of UK sports facilities on Active Places, as it is only applicable to England. The database currently holds information on 11 sport facility types. Sport England estimates that over 80 per cent. of formal sport in England takes places on these types of facilities and that Active Places database includes over 90 per cent. of these facilities. The Sports Council for Northern Ireland has developed its own version of Active Places and the Sports Council for Wales is currently developing a version as well.
Tourism: Cleethorpes
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the number of (a) UK and (b) overseas tourists visiting Cleethorpes in each of the last five years. [179714]
Margaret Hodge: The tables show (a) the number of domestic overnight trips to the Yorkshire region and (b) the number of overseas visits to the Northern Lincolnshire region for the latest years for which data is available.
Information on visits at constituency or ward level by domestic and foreign tourists is not available.
| Domestic overnight trips by UK residents( 1) | |
| Yorkshire( 2) (million) | |
| (1) The methodology for the UKTS changed in 2005 meaning that comparisons with previous years should be treated with caution. This change occurred as a result of concerns with the quality of 2004 data, which is thought to be an under-representation of the true position. (2) North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston-upon Hull, North Lincolnshire and North-East Lincolnshire. Source: UK Tourism Survey (National Tourist Boards) | |
| Overseas visits | |
| Northern Lincolnshire (thousand) | |
| Source: International Passenger Survey (ONS) | |
It is not possible to provide a time series for the number of day visits by UK residents there were to Cleethorpes (or the surrounding region) as the survey is run intermittently.
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the average expenditure per head of tourists visiting Cleethorpes in each of the last five years. [179716]
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