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Dept for Culture Media and Sport

Answer

Matthew Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the budget for the Arts Council for 2004-05 is; how much of this budget has been committed this year, and to what projects this money has been committed. [179943] Estelle Morris: The budget for the Arts Council is set out in the following table. Arts Council budget allocations-2004-05 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Budget Commitment £000 £000 Grant in Aid (GIA): Regularly Funded Organisations 280,081 279,515 Managed funds 28,000 2,919 Grants to Individuals 7,500 1,431 Creative Partnerships 25,000 25,000 GIA administration 23,677 23,677 Total 364,258 332,542 Lottery: Grants for National Touring 10,000 2,679 Grants to Organisations 41,000 7,982 Stabilisation/Recovery of large scale 16,000 16,000 organisations Capital Projects 89,500 89,500 National Foundation for Youth Music 10,000 10,000 Awards for All 7,000 1,790 Lottery administration 18,968 18,968 Total 192,468 146,919 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Arts Council England's total Grant in Aid allocation for 2004-05 is £365,455,000. Arts Council England's Lottery allocation for 2004-05 is £198,200,000. The Lottery budget is based on a cash flow forecasting exercise. It is not possible to list all of the projects that have received funding for the period 2004-05. For example the Grant in Aid budget supports over 1200 regularly funded organisations.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

179943; 422 c1535W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Finance Arts Council England

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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