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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the ALB-Historic England-Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund Resilience Grants.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport sets objectives for grant funding when designing grant schemes and allocates funding in accordance with those objectives. Depending on the scale of the funding, the department also conducts post-event assurance and evaluation of the outcomes achieved. The evaluation for the Grants for Programmes of Major Works and COVID-19 Emergency Response Resilience Fund was conducted by Historic England as part of the Heritage Stimulus Fund evaluation, and can be accessed here.