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(f) Heritage Lottery Fund
Amount awarded in grants (£) Proportion from lottery (Percentage) Proportion from Exchequer (Percentage)

1997-98

346,383,524

100

0

1998-99

347,729,046

100

0

1999-2000

281,122,789

100

0

2000-01

338,776,889

100

0

2001-02

306,376,778

100

0

2002-03

330,049,147

100

0

2003-04

315,552,714

100

0

2004-05

362,748,095

100

0

2005-06

317,743,486

100

0

2006-07

314,351,438

100

0

2007-08

276,696,170

100

0



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(g) UK Film Council
Amount awarded in grants (£) Proportion from lottery (Percentage) Proportion from Exchequer (Percentage)

1997-98

—

—

—

1998-99

—

—

—

1999-2000

2,442,000

100

—

2000-01

35,210,000

46

54

2001-02

39,101,000

49

51

2002-03

48,780,000

55

45

2003-04

51,782,000

57

43

2004-05

75,593,000

67

33

2005-06

69,966,000

60

40

2006-07

64,829,000

58

42

2007-08

51,345,000

51

49

Notes:
1. UK Film Council was only incorporated in July 1999. In 1999-2000, operations were limited, with only a small number of lottery awards being made. The organization became fully operational as a grant-in-aid and lottery distributor on 1 April 2000.
2. For lottery awards, figures are shown according to the date when the grant was decided/awarded, and not necessarily the date at which funding was paid out. This is consistent with UK Film Council reporting arrangements, and with information published in its annual reports.
3. All amounts are rounded to the nearest £1,000.
4. All figures 1999-2007 are extracted from UK FC audited annual report and accounts. Those for 2007-08 are draft, awaiting audit sign off in July 2008.
5. Fluctuations in levels of lottery awards are due to several factors including the launching of funding streams, and in some cases awards covering a period in excess of one year (e.g. in 2003-04, a three-year delegation of £6,500,000 per annum to Skillset was made—resulting in a soft commitment being recorded of £18,500,000 in that year). Core grant-in-aid activities have remained reasonably constant across the period with the main fluctuations relating to one-off additional funding received and allocated, e.g. the re-development of the bfi Southbank.

Departmental Pay

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many and what proportion of employees in his Department who received a performance-related bonus at their last appraisal were (a) male, (b) female, (c) from an ethnic minority, (d) disabled and (e) not heterosexual; and if he will make a statement. [208383]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport makes bonus payments to its staff for two purposes: (a) in year special bonuses to reward outstanding contributions in particularly demanding tasks or situations, and (b) end of year performance bonuses to reward highly successful performance over a whole year.

The table of results sets out awarded performance related bonus results during the 2006-07 financial year—split into the categories requested.

(a) Male (b) Female (c) Ethnic minority(declared) (d) Disabled (declared) (e) Not-heterosexual (declared)
No. of staff % No. of staff % No. of staff % No. of staff % No. of staff

In year special bonuses(all grades including SCS)

56

46

65

54

12

10

(1)—

—

(1)—

End of year performance bonuses (grades A(U)-D)

90

45

111

55

29

15

6

3

(1)—

End of year performance bonuses (SCS only)

20

71

8

29

(1)—

—

0

0

(1)—

(1 )We are unable to give exact numbers where there are 5 or less responses from staff as this could breach staff confidentiality.
Notes:
1. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport only started monitoring on sexual orientation at the end of 2006. It will take approximately five years to build up any meaningful data.
2. The information provided relates to the Department only and does not include the Department's non-departmental public bodies or the Royal Parks Executive Agency.
3. The end of year performance bonus for senior civil servants is dealt with at a separate time to other grades, and the information has therefore been presented to reflect this.
4. We are unable to give exact numbers where there are five or less responses from staff as this could breach staff confidentiality.
5. For reference—there are four grades below the senior civil service, which broadly equate to former civil service grades as follows:
Grade A(U)—former grade 6.
Grade A—former grades 6/7.
Grade B—former SEO/HEO/HEO(D) and equivalent grades.
Grade C—former EO and equivalent grades.
Grade D—former AO/AA and equivalent grades.

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Gambling: Young People

Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what programmes of research are in place to establish the number of under-age gamblers in the UK. [209670]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The National Lottery Commission’s ongoing research programme includes regular tracking surveys of 12 to 15-year-olds to monitor underage play of the national lottery. This research includes information on underage participation in other gambling activities.

The research is published in the underage research section of the National Lottery Commission’s website:

The Gambling Commission has also commissioned a literature review on children and gambling which is due to be published in the summer.

National Heritage Memorial Fund: Manpower

Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people are employed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund. [209404]

Margaret Hodge [holding answer 6 June 2008]: The National Heritage Memorial Fund (which administers the Heritage Lottery Fund) has advised that it employs 258 permanent staff, some of whom work part-time.

National Lottery: Armed Forces

Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful applications for Lottery funding from military and naval charities there were in each year since 1997; [208917]

(2) what the amount was of Lottery funding (a) applied for by and (b) granted to military and naval charities in each year since 1997. [208918]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The Big Lottery Fund has supplied DCMS with the following information:

Applications from and awards to military and naval charities
Decision in year ending 31 March Applications Awards Requested (£) Awarded (£)

1997

55

6

3,877,585

171,293

1998

57

12

3,672,892

22,477

1999

70

27

2,099,757

155,949

2000

133

53

1,583,599

363,698

2001

121

52

2,099,656

145,042

2002

84

48

2,052,060

205,710

2003

131

65

699,679

235,841

2004

154

112

1,232,810

522,892

2005

479

433

2,331,059

2,767,893

2006

722

640

3,479,621

2,828,672

2007

181

107

1,121,144

557,411

2008

148

70

2,364,196

397,343


In addition, the Heroes Return programme made a number of grants to individual veterans rather than to charities:


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Decision in year ending 31 March Applications Awards Requested (£) Awarded (£)

2005

8,803

8,667

(1)—

8,193,613

2006

5,293

5,167

(1)—

5,956,699

2007

2

2

(1)—

2,975

(1) No meaningful data.
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