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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of his Department's grant-in-aid funding goes to London-based institutions.

The Department does not allocate grant-in-aid on a geographical basis. The grant-in-aid is allocated across the Department's Arm's Length Bodies as shown on page 128 of the DCMS Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14. However, most of these Arm's Length Bodies have operations both in London and outside of London and the Department does not ask them to allocate grant-in-aid on a geographical basis.

The DCMS Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 gives a Country and Regional Analysis on page 206, but this relates to total expenditure, not just that channeled through grant-in-aid; it should be noted that this table apportions the expenditure based on the region which benefits, not necessarily according to where the expenditure occurs. Please find the table on the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-14'