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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding her Department is providing to grassroots music venues in Enfield North constituency.

The Government is committed to supporting our grassroots music venues, which are the lifeblood, and research and development centres, of our world-leading music sector.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is in regular discussions with all parts of the music industry, including live venues at every level. We work with industry and across Government to improve the sector's economic resilience to future economic shocks, as we did through the pandemic, and the recent Energy Bills Support Scheme.

In Enfield North specifically, across all artforms and disciplines Arts Council England have invested £3.426 million in Enfield North since 2018/19 in 61 projects. This includes 9 music specific applications from available funds, such as:

• Skanda Sabbagh who received £10,000 through Developing Your Creative Practice fund to develop their North African percussion practice, and electronic music artist and rapper Paul Pitter who received a National Lottery Project Grant award (£23,600) to develop a new Extended Play (EP);

• £1.25 million was invested in the Enfield North Music Education Hub via the Music Hub Investment Programme; and

• Four Enfield North based projects received Cultural Recovery Fund funding. Three of these grants were awarded to the local authority (totalling £778,000) with a focus on sustaining their venues, the Dugdale Centre and Millfield Theatre, which programme a range of music, amongst other art forms.