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Dept for Culture Media and Sport

Answer

Mr. Whittingdale: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will list each of the programmes that have been funded by the New Opportunities Fund since 1997, broken down by amounts (a) allocated and (b) distributed. [218570] Estelle Morris: The table shows the total funding target for each of the New Opportunities Fund's policy direction initiatives, together with amounts committed, since 1997. Several of these programmes are long-term initiatives which were not intended to be completed by 2005 or where planning and design of facilities was expected to take time. For example, the Big Lottery Fund are on target to comply with the direction to commit all the Fund for New Opportunities for PE and Sport before the end of this year. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £000 Initiatives Total funding target Amount committed as at Amount distributed as at 31 December 2004 31 December 2004 Health Programmes Healthy Living Centres 300,000 267,775 124,536 Cancer prevention detection 149,530 145,193 135,295 treatment and care Reducing the burden of CHD, 213,500 199,088 102,819 stroke and cancer Palliative Care 84,470 78,616 30,063 Education Programmes Out of school hours learning 258,900 214,906 167,794 Out of school hours childcare and 418,500 372,785 279,386 childcare Community access to lifelong 200,000 188,218 169,279 learning ICT training and content creation 301,000 287,361 255,540 Opportunities for young 852,050 597,968 82,385 people--PE and sport in schools Opportunities and activities for 67,200 64,549 60,913 young people Young People's Fund 174,120 0 -- Environment programmes Green spaces and sustainable 130,000 116,727 94,251 communities Transforming communities 159,000 138,062 29,381 Small scale grants scheme 54,840 44,519 38,367 Fairshare 50,000 50,000 50,000 Veterans1 5,160 10,723 9,074 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Remaining Veterans budget to be allocated from ICT underspend

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

218570; 431 c1322W;431 c1316W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Education Environment Grants Health education Lotteries New Opportunities Fund Sports

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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