Culture Media and Sport written question – answered at on 22 January 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much of the Heritage Lottery Fund has been allocated to preserving historic churches in each of the last five years.
The Heritage Lottery Fund provides funding to places of worship, including historic churches, through its Repair Grants for Places of Worship scheme. The allocation for this scheme over the last five years is set out in the following table. Historic churches have also been eligible to apply to the fund's other grants programmes if they met the criteria, and provided that any application for outstanding repair works could not be tackled via the Places of Worship scheme.
Financial year | Heritage Lottery Fund Repair Grants for Places of Worship budget (£) |
2004-05 | 20,000,000 |
2005-06 | 20,000,000 |
2006-07 | 20,000,000 |
2007-08 | 20,000,000 |
2008-09 | 18,000,000 |
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