Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many cultural heritage sites received direct Government grant funding in each of the last three financial years.

In 2023-2024 to 2025-2026 period the government has directly funded Marlborough House, Chatham Historic Dock Yard and the Old Royal Naval College.

The Department for Culture Media and Sport also ran the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme. In the last three years of the scheme, between April 2023 and March 2026, a total of 8,218 individual Listed Places of Worship have received grant funding from the scheme.The value of funding paid to these applicants for the 3-year period was £89,504,426.

In March 2026, Government provided a £9 million grant to the National Trust to contribute to an endowment to support the acquisition and ongoing running of Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust.

In 2025-2026 the Government also provided funding for two grant schemes, the Heritage Revival Fund and the Heritage at Risk Capital fund. However, those were administered by Historic England on our behalf so have not been included here.