National Lottery

(asked on 29th July 2014) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much lottery money has been spent on sports and recreation each year since the establishment of the National Lottery; how much they anticipate will be spent in 2015, 2016, and 2017; and how much of that funding has been allocated for each Olympic and Paralympic sport.


Answered by
Baroness Northover Portrait
Baroness Northover
This question was answered on 18th August 2014

The amounts of National Lottery money drawn down by the Lottery sports distributors for spending on the sports good cause were as follows:

1994/95 - £1.8 million

1995/96 - £40.1 million

1996/97 - £181.6 million

1997/98 - £188.3 million

1998/99 - £397.4 million

1999/00 - £316.7 million

2000/01 - £292.5 million

2001/02 - £359.2 million

2002/03 - £377.5 million

2003/04 - £315.5 million

2004/05 - £241.6 million

2005/06 - £264.1 million

2006/07 - £208.8 million

2007/08 - £216.1 million

2008/09 - £230.5 million

2009/10 - £216.6 million

2010/11 - £224.0 million

2011/12 - £302.5 million

2012/13 - £271.6 million

2013/14 - £358.2 million

In addition, the Big Lottery Fund (and its predecessor bodies) spent approximately £1 billion on sports and recreation projects that had a social impact over that period.

The sports distributors estimate that they will drawing down approximately £450 million this financial year and in each of the next three financial years.

UK Sport invests in four-year cycles in line with the Olympic and Paralympic calendars. The breakdown of funding for each sport up to Pyeongchang 2018 can be found on the UK Sport website.

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