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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) grants and (b) indirect funding were provided by the EU's Creative Europe programme the UK arts and cultural organisations in (i) 2013-14, (ii) 2014-15 and (iii) 2015-16 to date.

The Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020) was launched in January 2014. The programme consists of two sub-programmes; the Culture sub-programme to promote the culture sector, and the MEDIA sub-programme to support the audiovisual sector. Prior to 2014, the European Commission ran separate Culture and MEDIA programmes.

The Creative Europe UK Desk reports the following support was received by UK cultural and creative organisations and audiovisual companies through each of the sub-programmes in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

UK Results for EU Commission Culture and MEDIA programmes 2013, and Creative Europe Programme 2014-2015

Note: Indirect funding in the MEDIA sub-programme relates to awards to non-UK distribution companies distributing UK films in foreign markets. In the Culture sub-programme all awards are direct grants to UK led projects.