Rachel Reeves – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rachel Reeves on 2016-05-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what Government funding has been awarded to (a) Welcome to Yorkshire, (b) the campaign to bring the Turner Prize to Hull in 2017 and (c) the creation of a new cycle gateway to the Yorkshire Dales National Park since the publication of the Long-Term Economic Plan for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire in February 2015.
David Evennett
Over the last two financial years, Welcome to Yorkshire has received a total of £1,619,100 of Government funding to promote tourism and the success of cycling in Yorkshire, building on the Grand Depart.
This Government is providing £1.5million funding for the Ferens gallery in Hull so it can host the 2017 Turner prize.
And in 2014, the Canal River Trust won £450,000 from the Cycling Ambition in National Park programme for a range of cycling schemes, including the transformation of a 4km stretch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal centred on the market town of Skipton, which is also a key gateway to the Yorkshire Dales.
On 24 May Government announced funding for both the Sustainable Travel Transition Year Fund 2016/17, and the North East Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire, with projects earmarked across the region but not in the specific Yorkshire Dales area.
