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Playing Fields: Planning Permission
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when he plans to publish his Department's statistics on planning applications affecting playing fields in 2006-07. [227385]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Sport England has advised that in December 2008 it intends to publish statistics on planning applications affecting playing fields in 2006- 07.
Public Libraries: Finance
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding public libraries received from the public purse in each year since 1997, expressed in 2008 prices. [227384]
Barbara Follett: The information requested is as follows:
DCMS grant in aid funding for the British Library is shown in the following table:
| British Library funding, incorporating resource and capital grant in aid | ||
| £ million | ||
| Historic prices | Current prices( 1) | |
Government funding is provided to the full range of public libraries through a number of channels. The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) provide funding in support of particular projects and programmes. The funding provided since 1997-98 is as follows:
| MLA support for public libraries( 2) | ||
| £ million | ||
| Historic prices | Current prices( 1) | |
In addition DCMS/Wolfson Public Library Challenge Fund funding in support of reading activities was as follows:
| DCS/Wolfson Public Library Challenge Fund | ||
| £ million | ||
| Historic prices | Current prices( 1) | |
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has policy responsibility for public libraries but core funding for public libraries is paid to the 149 library authorities in England as part of the Local Government Finance Settlement, administered by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). Local authorities’ net current expenditure on public libraries, as advised by DCLG, is set out in the following table.
| Net current expenditure (public libraries, England) | ||
| £000 | ||
| Historic prices | Current prices( 1) | |
| (1) Calculated using Gross Domestic Product deflators 2007-08 supplied by Her Majesty's Treasury. (2) Museums, Libraries and Archives Council spend that cannot be directly attributed to one of the three domains is excluded from the table. (3) This is a final figure and supersedes provisional figures supplied to Parliament at a previous date. | ||
Regional Arts Councils: Manpower
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) how many people were employed by each regional arts council in 2007-08; [224167]
(2) how many people were employed by the regional arts boards of the Arts Council in 1997-08; [224168]
(3) how many people were employed by Arts Council England (a) nationally and (b) regionally in (i) 1997-08 and (ii) 2007-08. [224169]
Barbara Follett: The information requested has been provided by Arts Council England (ACE) and is set out in the table. In order to interpret the data in the table, it is important to realise that in 1997-98, the Arts Council of England and the 10 Regional Arts Boards were separate organisations, whereas in 2007-08, ACE compromised a national office and nine regional offices.
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| Core/specific project | Organisation | 1997-98 | 2007-08 | Grand total | 1997-98 | 2007-08 |
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