Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding her Department is making available for the broadcast of the Coronation on big screens.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport offered funding to the Devolved Administrations, the Mayoral Combined Authorities in England and to ten local authorities in England covering the largest urban populations as a contribution to the cost of hosting public screenings of the Coronation and Coronation Concert. The total amount offered for Coronation screenings was £840,000 which will ensure that we capitalise on the unique opportunity the Coronation offers to bring people and communities together in celebration and showcase the best of the UK to the world.