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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate she has made of the amount of funding from the EU which is spent on arts-related projects in the UK in each year since 2010.

The Chancellor has guaranteed structural and investment fund projects in the UK that are signed even after the Autumn Statement. In addition, projects where UK organisations bid directly and competitively for EU funding will be guaranteed by the UK Government if the bids are won before our departure from the EU, regardless of whether or not the projects continue after departure. Funding for other projects will be honoured by the government if they are good value for money and are in line with domestic strategic priorities.

Leaving the EU means we will want to take our own decisions about how to deliver the policy objectives previously targeted by EU funding. We are consulting closely with stakeholders to review all EU funding schemes to ensure that any ongoing funding commitments best serve the UK‘s national interest, while ensuring appropriate investor certainty.

Information on EU funding through the Creative Europe programme for arts organisation, programmes and projects can be found in the answer to the PQ 31508 at the following website:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-03-16/31508/

A number of arts and cultural projects have also received funding through the European Regional Development Fund during the same period. The Department for Communities and Local Government is the UK responsible body for this funding, and details of recipients are published on the DCLG website.