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Leader of the House

Speaker: Elections

John Mann: To ask the Leader of the House if she will publish lists of all hon. Members who participated in each round of voting to elect a Commons Speaker on 22 June 2009. [282453]

Barbara Keeley: No list of Members who voted in the secret ballot is compiled.

Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: East of England

Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding his Department has allocated to (a) visual arts, (b) musical arts, (c) music festivals, (d) public art, (e) art galleries, (f) the development of local artists and (g)
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theatrical arts in (i) Mid Bedfordshire constituency and (ii) the East of England in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [281703]

Barbara Follett: Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England. It distributes public money from Government and the national lottery.
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Arts Council England advises that it has allocated funding as set out in the following tables.

Regularly Funded Organisations

Arts Council England’s portfolio of Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) is funded from grant in-aid. In Mid-Bedfordshire there are no RFOs.

East of England
£
Artform	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Combined arts	401,461	594,376	727,505	762,002	791,557	729,617	746,543
Dance	289,273	289,151	315,073	397,943	469,412	559,697	593,874
Literature	102,195	136,323	304,891	320,275	400,762	399,851	410,848
Music	628,035	888,888	1,151,906	1,691,634	1,584,874	1,859,260	2,145,369
Not artform specific	275,930	396,258	112,248	467,104	424,535	332,547	286,848
Theatre	1,863,565	2,301,408	3,014,297	3,142,331	3,215,218	3,431,029	3,567,132
Visual arts total	804,822	888,107	1,122,257	1,279,136	1,429,332	1,383,999	1,427,390
Total	4,365,281	5,494,511	6,748,177	8,060,425	8,315,690	8,696,000	9,178,004

Prior to 2002-03, the Regional Arts Boards were independent bodies and they maintained records according to their own systems and requirements. Consequently, limited compatible figures for the RFO portfolio are available for earlier years.

Grants for the Arts—Individuals
£
	Mid-Bedfordshire
Artform	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	Total
Combined arts	—	—	—	—	—	—
Dance	—	—	—	—	—	—
Literature	—	—	—	—	—	—
Music	—	—	—	—	—	—
Not known	—	—	—	—	—	—
Theatre	—	4,023	—	—	—	4,023
Visual arts	—	—	—	1,860	—	1,860
Total	—	4,023	—	1,860	—	5,883

£
	East of England
Artform	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	Total
Combined arts	10,278	63,439	26,473	10,890	—	111,080
Dance	6,533	66,425	23,715	105,215	14,296	216,184
Literature	88,471	112,422	109,558	100,438	30,510	441,399
Music	18,494	69,027	91,338	90,104	7,565	276,528
Not artform specific	6,595	12,190	250	2,104	—	21,139
Theatre	8,635	271,080	129,542	55,435	23,500	488,192
Visual arts	176,610	384,554	245,833	409,560	30,908	1,247,464
Total	315,616	979,136	626,708	773,746	106,779	2,801,985

The Grants for the Arts Programme began in 2003-04. The Programme funds individuals, arts organisations and other people who use the arts in their work. The Grants for the Arts—Organisations strand has always been lottery funded (see next table); the Grants for the Arts—Individuals strand was funded from Grant-in-Aid until 2007-08, and has been lottery funded since then.

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Lottery funding
£
	Mid-Bedfordshire
Artform	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03
Not art form specific	—	—	11,080	9,270	37,571	13,643
Combined arts	—	—	—	—	—	—
Dance	12,988	—	—	24,000	19,100	21,425
Drama	4,110	—	—	—	—	—
Film(1)	—	—	—	—	—	—
Literature	2,610	14,881	—	—	—	—
Music	5,000	—	—	—	22,293	—
Visual arts	5,812	—	—	14,150	—	—
Total	30,520	14,881	11,080	47,420	78,964	35,068

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