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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the total amount of money awarded to good causes by the National Lottery in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency and (b) North Yorkshire in each of the last five years.

National Lottery funding figures for the Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency in each of the last five years:

2013: 29 grants worth a total of £8,645,453

2012: 22 grants worth a total of £624,654

2011:23 grants worth a total of £1,622,769

2010: 25 grants worth a total of £1,710,701

2009: 23 grants worth a total of £600,362

(Please note the 2013 figure is much higher as there was a grant of £6.8 million to Your Consortium, a charity based in Knaresborough.)

National Lottery funding figures for North Yorkshire in each of the last five years:

2013: 263 grants worth a total of £26,491,173

2012: 261 grants worth a total of £12,087,874

2011: 266 grants worth a total of £12,517,310

2010: 250 grants worth a total of £11,224,497

2009: 300 grants worth a total of £8,454,417