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The information is location specific. That is the list includes only grants that are specific to locations in the constituency and excludes grants that might have gone to addresses in the constituency, to headquarters offices for example, but are not otherwise related to it. The Department's Lottery Grants Database is searchable at:
and uses information supplied by the lottery distributors.
National Lottery: Finance
Mr. Jenkins:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much income the National Lottery
raised in each local authority area in England for each of the last three years for which figures are available. [187817]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Revenue raised by the National Lottery is measured nationally and not by local authority or any other geographical area.
Proceeds from National Lottery sales represent the vast majority of revenue. In addition, there are other operator-related proceeds (mainly unclaimed prizes) together with investment earnings on the overall balance held for distribution to the good causes.
National Lottery: Northern Ireland
Mark Durkan: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding was granted by the National Lottery (a) to schemes in Northern Ireland and (b) per head of the population in Northern Ireland in each financial year since 1997. [189437]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The number and value of grants awarded by the Lottery Distributing Bodies in each financial year since 1997, in Northern Ireland, is given in the following table. The figures are derived from the DCMS lottery grants database. The population figure used throughout is 1,741,600, which is the mid-2006 estimate of the Office for National Statistics.
| Financial year | Number of Grants | Total value of grants (£) | Per capita value (£) |
The Department’s lottery grants database is searchable at:
and uses information supplied by the lottery distributors.
Pigeon Racing
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what criteria must be satisfied for pigeon racing to become a sport. [185324]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The principal criteria against which the Sports councils assess activities is whether or not the activity meets the definition of sport contained in the Council of Europe's European Sports Charter 1993. This defines sport as:
“Sport means all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation aim at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well-being forming social relationships or obtaining results in competition at all levels”.
The other criteria include: the essential purpose of the activity, sustainability, rules and organisation and uniqueness.
The full guidelines governing the recognition of sporting activities can be found via the Sport England website:
Tourism
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many of the 10 most popular tourist attractions in England in each of the last 10 years are publicly owned. [187780]
Margaret Hodge: My Department does not maintain central records of the most popular tourist attractions in the UK.
However VisitBritain and its sector partners have over the last seven years carried out periodical surveys of regional attractions across Britain.
The 10 most popular tourist attractions for England are listed in the table and the publicly supported attractions are indicated by *.
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Home Department
101 Calls
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the non-emergency 101 number. [188137]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 25 February 2008]: Assessment of the 101 service in the initial live areas found that the service has successfully improved public access to and satisfaction in community safety services. Through greater partnership working and better information from the public about what problems are happening where, the 101 service has helped local police and councils to target their resources more effectively and efficiently and improve the delivery of those services to the public. We welcome Sir Ronnie Flanagan's endorsement of these benefits in the final report of his review of policing, particularly in support of better neighbourhood management.
While it was decided not to continue centrally to fund local areas, a difficult but necessary decision in the context of important competing pressures and priorities, we remain keen to see the benefits and good practice from 101 taken up as widely as possible. It is for this reason that we will be continuing to provide funding for the national 101 infrastructure, as well as providing a tool kit to help local areas to improve local services and develop locally funded 101 services where possible.
I welcome the work currently being taken forward to this effect by the Greater London Assembly together with London councils, individual boroughs and the Metropolitan Police in their plans to pilot the 101 service locally.
Alcoholic Drinks: Young People
Mrs. Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to prevent retailers selling alcohol to under-age children. [188122]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 25 February 2008]: Successive Alcohol Misuse Enforcement Campaigns (2004-06) and Tackling Underage Sales of Alcohol Campaigns (2006-07) have reduced the test purchase failure rate from approximately 50 per cent. to approximately 15 per cent.
The Home Office will continue to address the problem of underage drinking through co-ordinating the utilisation of existing legislation in relation to underage sales and confiscation of alcohol through national campaigns.
Animal Experiments
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department further to the ministerial letter of 31 January 2006 responding to the recommendations within the Animal Procedures Committee’s (APC) 2005 report on the Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals; what response she has made to the APC’s Recommendation 9 on enhancements to the types of information recorded within the statistics. [188561]
Meg Hillier: We will provide a further response to recommendation 9 of the Animal Procedures Committee’s 2005 report on the Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals when the European Commission publishes revised statistical reporting requirements as part of the current review of Directive 86/609/EEC, which the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 transposes into UK law.
Antisocial Behaviour: Crawley
Laura Moffatt: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to tackle antisocial behaviour in Crawley. [188129]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 25 February 2008]: We have provided practitioners with a toolkit to tackle antisocial behaviour, which they operate according to local priorities and a practitioner website and advice line. In Crawley, a multidisciplinary antisocial behaviour team operates many initiatives, based on prevention and enforcement that engage, educate and promote awareness among young people, engage with residents and tackle antisocial behaviour in families.
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