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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been made available to church buildings, excluding cathedrals, through the Culture Recovery Fund.

The Culture Recovery Fund is being delivered by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and Historic England. Funding to churches by these bodies through the Culture Recovery Fund is as follows (figures have been provided by the awarding bodies):

Heritage Stimulus Fund (data supplied by Historic England)

Churches (all denominations) £18,359,911.28

Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage (data supplied by National Lottery Heritage Fund)

Places of Worship (the majority of these relate to sites of active worship, mainly churches of all denominations): £11,600,100

Grand Total: £29,960,011.28