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Written question asked by Ivan Lewis (Labour) on Tuesday, 21 June 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 23 June 2011. It was answered by Jeremy Hunt (Conservative) on Thursday, 30 June 2011 on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Architecture: Finance

Question
(2) how much grant in aid funding his Department allocated to the funding of design in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12;
Answer

My Department gave grant in aid to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) for the promotion of education or high standards in, and appreciation of architecture and the design of the built environment. The amount CABE received from 2009 to 2012 (excluding the Sea Change Grant programme) is in the following table:

£000
2009-10 4,789
2010-11 4,690
2011-12 3,523

The grant in aid in 2011-12 is primarily for CABE's costs of closure.Arts Council England allocates grant in aid to its regularly funded organisations through the sub-art form classifier 'Architecture/landscape/environmental art' and the 2009-12 figures are in the following table:

£
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
Architecture Centre Network 122,489 125,167 116,530
Kielder Partnership 40,185 41,064 38,230
Made 34,241 34,989 32,575
Northern Architecture 44,652 44,429 41,363
The Architecture Foundation 114,610 114,037 106,168
The Bristol Centre for the Advancement of Architecture Ltd 55,677 56,894 52,968
Total 411,854 416,580 387,834

Design does not receive grant in aid from my Department.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
62110; 530 c902W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Architecture Finance
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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