Culture Media and Sport written question – answered at on 11 November 2013.
Helen Goodman
Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what funding the (a) Royal Opera House, (b) Southbank Centre, (c) National Theatre, (d) English National Opera, (e) British Museum, (f) Natural History Museum, (g) Imperial War Museum, (h) National Gallery, (i) Royal Museums Greenwich, (j) National Museums Liverpool, (k) National Portrait Group, (l) Science Museum Group, (m) Tate Gallery, (n) Wallace Collection, (o) Museum of Science and Industry Manchester, (p) Sir John Soane's Museum, (q) Horniman Museum and Gardens, (r) Geffrye Museum, (s) Royal Armouries and (t) British Library received or is forecast to receive from (i) her Department, (ii) Arts Council England and (iii) the National Lottery in (A) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12, (C) 2012-13, (D) 2013-14 and (E) 2014-15.
Helen Grant
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
DCMS provides direct funding for 13 national museums, the British Library, the Horniman Museum and Gardens and the Geffrye Museum. Funding allocated in each of the financial years from 2010-15 to these directly sponsored bodies is as follows:
| £000 | |||||
| (A) 2010-11 | (B) 2011-12 | (C) 2012-13 | (D) 2013-14 | (E) 2014-15 | |
| (e) British Museum | 46,343 | 56,051 | 45,378 | 43,862 | 43,315 |
| (f) Natural History Museum | 48,586 | 46,480 | 45,760 | 44,314 | 43,869 |
| (g) Imperial War Museum | 23,910 | 21,961 | 31,186 | 21,093 | 15,944 |
| (h) National Gallery | 28,201 | 26,744 | 26,320 | 25,520 | 25,238 |
| (i) Royal Museums Greenwich | 19,002 | 17,258 | 16,848 | 16,382 | 16,268 |
| (j) National Museums Liverpool | 23,712 | 21,875 | 22,061 | 20,912 | 20,725 |
| (k) National Portrait Gallery | 7,577 | 7,398 | 7,277 | 7,040 | 6,962 |
| (1) Science Museum Group | 40,153 | 38,254 | 43,660 | 42,247 | 41,832 |
| (m) Tate Gallery | 54,729 | 45,105 | 34,912 | 24,394 | 32,500 |
| (n) Wallace Collection | 4,212 | 2,983 | 2,946 | 2,894 | 2,892 |
| (o) Museum of Science and Industry Manchester(1) | 4,882 | 3,332 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| (p) Sir John Soane's Museum | 1,169 | 1,130 | 1,111 | 1,472 | 1,062 |
| (q) Horniman Museums and Gardens | 4,518 | 4,385 | 4,199 | 4,158 | 4,008 |
| (r) Geffrye Museum | 1,773 | 1,674 | 1,645 | 1,689 | 1,569 |
| (s) Royal Armouries | 8,389 | 7,901 | 8,773 | 7,520 | 7,438 |
| (t) British Library | 105,847 | 101,873 | 103,868 | (2)92,494 | 98,821 |
| (1) The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester merged with the Science Museum Group in January 2012. (2) This figure includes the GIA initially allocated to the Public Lending Right before it was merged with the British Library. | |||||
DCMS also contributed a half-share towards the following awards made by the DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund in 2012-13:
| Sponsored body | DCMS/Wolfson Fund total award 2012-13 (£) |
| British Museum | 200,000 |
| Science Museum Group | 100,000 |
| National Portrait Gallery | 86,000 |
| Royal Armouries | 100,000 |
| Wallace Collection | 75,000 |
Information on how much funding is allocated to National Portfolio Organisations and Major Partner Museums funded by Arts Council England, at arm's length of Government, is publicly available on the Arts Council's website:
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/our-investment/investment-in-the-arts-2012-15/ and
Details of lottery grants awarded in particular years can be found on the Department's lottery grants database, which is searchable at:
The database uses information on lottery grants supplied by the lottery distributors. It is not possible to determine how much lottery funding these institutions will receive in future years as the distributing bodies for lottery funds make their decisions independently of Government and this Department and in response to applications they receive.
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