Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what funds from the European Regional Development Fund were delegated to arts and culture in each of the regions in each year since 2012.
Research commissioned by Arts Council England suggests that from 2007-2016, £190m of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) funding was awarded to projects focused on or linked to the arts, museums and the creative industries in England. EU funding works in 7 year cycles, and this statistic includes all data from the previous ERDF funding cycle (2007-2013) and as much of the current funding cycle as possible. I have provided the breakdown by region for this period of time. DCMS does not hold similar statistics for ERDF funding awarded in the Devolved Nations.
ERDF funding total
ERDF | 2007-13 | £127,201,562 |
2014-16 | £63,263,202 |
ERDF funding by region
| East of England | East Midlands | London | North East | North West | South East | South West | West Midlands | Yorkshire & Humberside |
ERDF 2007-2016 (£) | 1,549,440 | 15,901,515 | 22,066,282 | 38,960,073 | 37,122,160 | 0.00 | 20,639,558 | 29,888,022 | 59,065,964 |