Catherine West – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Catherine West on 2016-05-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2016 to Question 35516, how much funding was allocated to programmes to support the learning of the Cornish language in each year since 2010.

James Wharton

DCLG Cornish language funding to Cornwall Council since 2010.

Year Annual funding

2010/11 £150,000

2011/12 £140,000

2012/13 £120,000

2013/14 £100,000

2014/15 £120,000

2015/16 £150,000

Cornwall Council has a core spending power of £1.7 billion over the next four years.