Helen Goodman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2014-06-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much lottery funding and from which year is being committed to Arts Council England’s national portfolio organisations and national partner museums as part of their overall settlement for the period 2015 to 2018.

Mr Edward Vaizey

DCMS allocates 13.956% of Lottery income to Arts Council England. It is for the Arts Council to make decisions about how to allocate this funding, and to which organisations. The Arts Council is currently finalising how it will allocate funding from 2015/16 onwards, and is due to make an announcement on 1 July.