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Written question asked by Bob Spink (Independent (affiliation)) on Friday, 9 October 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 13 October 2009. It was answered by Gerry Sutcliffe (Labour) on Thursday, 15 October 2009 on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Charities

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what grants his Department made to charitable organisations in each of the last five years.
Answer

The Department records the charitable status of those bodies that it supports through grant in aid, ongoing grants and strategic commissioning.Payments to these bodies are set out in the following table.

£000
Charity name 2008-09 2007-08 2006-07
NDPBs with exempt charity status
British Library 107,086 106,608 114,281
British Museum 51,103 45,055 46,605
Imperial War Museum 24,022 22,304 21,034
Museum of London 0 8,826 8,593
National Gallery 26,527 25,798 26,336
National Maritime Museum 19,730 18,636 18,354
National Museum of Science and Industry 39,311 41,484 42,417
National Museums Liverpool 22,619 22,508 23,172
National Portrait Gallery 7,853 7,193 6,771
Natural History Museum 53,047 45,425 47,785
Tate Gallery 61,544 46,097 35,661
The Royal Armouries 8,264 8,917 8,273
Victoria and Albert Museum 45,020 45,954 43,637
Wallace Collection 4,388 4,384 3,324
Registered charities
Arts Council of England 436,831 425,992 476,552
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust 300 455 450
Churches Conservation Trust 3,162 3,062 2,462
Design Museum 414 503 530
Geffrye Museum 1,748 2,215 1,571
Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College 2,200 1,500 1,500
Horniman Museum 4,757 4,358 4,467
Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester 4,788 4,451 4,886
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council 65,321 64,271 52,318
National Film and Television School 2,978 3,013 3,415
National Football Museum 103 144 104
Sir John Soane's Museum 1,339 1,389 1,264
Notes:
1. The Department changed its accounting system at the end of 2005-06. Comparative information for 2005-06 and earlier years could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
2. The Department does not routinely record the status of all recipients from other grant schemes for which eligibility is the custody of historic buildings or museum, library or archive collections, and a fuller list could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
3. Some figures above are higher than those in the annual report and accounts as they include elements of Strategic Commissioning funding.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
497 c1030-1W; 292662
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Charities Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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