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Culture Online: Expenditure
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent on Culture Online in each year since 2000-01. [225757]
Barbara Follett: Expenditure on Culture Online in each year since it was established is set out in the table. Culture Online closed at the end of March 2007.
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Culture Online: Manpower
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many staff were employed to work on Culture Online in each year since 2002-03; and how many will be employed during 2008-09. [225689]
Barbara Follett: The information requested is set out in the table. Figures are not available for 2002-03.
| Culture Online staff numbers | |
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Culture Online ceased to be part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in March 2007 and therefore does not figure in any future plans for the Department.
Departmental Ceremonies
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department spent on (a) ceremonial overheads and (b) ceremonial services in each of the last five years; and if he will break down these costs by subheading. [225688]
Andy Burnham: The costs recorded for ceremonial overheads in each financial year were as follows:
| Costs (£) | |
It is not possible to disaggregate the costs of ceremonial services costs from these figures.
Departmental Land
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether the funds received by his Department as part of the sale of the land to the north of the British Library have yet been allocated; and what plans he has to make use of any unallocated funds. [224764]
Andy Burnham: All funds retained by the Department from of the sale of the “Land to the North” have been fully allocated.
Departmental Legislation
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what estimate (a) his Department and (b) Arts Council England has made of the cost to arts establishments and artists of new (i) regulations and (ii) legislation in each of the last three years; [224775]
(2) what estimate (a) his Department and (b) Sport England has made of the cost to sports clubs of new (i) regulations and (ii) legislation in each of the last three years; [224776]
(3) what estimate (a) his Department and (b) Arts Council England has made of the cost to arts establishments and artists of new (i) regulations and (ii) legislation in each of the last three years; [224956]
(4) what estimate (a) his Department and (b) Sport England has made of the cost to sports clubs of new (i) regulations and (ii) legislation in each of the last three years. [224957]
Andy Burnham: New Government regulation and legislation usually goes through the impact assessment process. Impact assessments are listed in command papers regularly published by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) each year, which are available in the House Library or from BERR’s website:
Impact assessments consider the costs and benefits of proposed new regulation especially for those directly affected. It is usual that key stakeholders across the relevant sectors, which include non-departmental public bodies, are consulted on the identified costs and expected impact in advance of the regulation or legislation being made.
Departmental NDPBs
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 17 June 2008, Official Report, columns 856-58W, on departmental NDPBs, what funding has been agreed with (a) the Royal Parks Agency and (b) each of his Department's NDPBs for the period 2008-11. [225071]
Barbara Follett: Cash funding for the Royal Parks is as follows:
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| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | |
Grant in aid funding for NDPBs is as follows:
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| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | |
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 17 June 2008, Official Report, columns 856-58W, on departmental NDPBs, on which date (a) the Royal Parks Agency and (b) each of his Department's NDPBs finalised its most recent funding agreement with his Department. [225074]
Andy Burnham: The information requested is in the following table. The Royal Parks Agency is an Executive Agency and does not have a Funding Agreement with the Department.
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