Written question asked by Jim Cunningham (Labour) on Tuesday, 2 June 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 8 June 2009. It was answered by Barbara Follett (Labour) on Monday, 8 June 2009 on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Community Arts: Coventry

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding his Department allocated to community arts programmes in Coventry in each of the last three years.

Answer: Arts Council England (ACE) invested £1,579,691 in regularly funded organisations in Coventry in 2006-07; £1,722,974 in 2007-08 and £1,823,059 in 2008-09. Many of these organisations are actively engaged in community arts and a proportion of their core funding supports this work. ACE also awarded grants for the arts awards of £5,000 in 2006-07; £14,218 in 2007-08 and £5,000 in 2008-09 to projects with a specific focus on, or element of, community arts.

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