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6.2 Public cultural expenditure per capita

In 2006/07 government spending on culture via the Arts Councils per head of population in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland was:

Table 2:     Grant in aid for four Arts Councils, in GBP, 2005-2007

Arts Council	Grant in aid 2005-06	Grant in aid 2006 -07	Per capita spend 2006-07
Arts Council England	409 178 000	422 361 000	8.19
Scottish Arts Council	55 298 000	62 474 000	11.93
Arts Council of Wales	26 930 000	26 808 000	8.80
Arts Council of Northern Ireland	11 534 522	10 274 852	6.13

Source:      Figures extracted from DCMS Annual Report 2007, Scottish Arts Council Annual Report 2007, Arts Council of Wales Annual Report 2007, Arts Council of Northern Ireland Annual Report 2007 and ACNI position paper for CSR07.

Table 3:     Department of Culture, Media and Sport, total spending by country and region, in GBP, 2004-2006

County and region	2004/05 Outturn	2005/06 Outturn
North East	155.0	141.5
North West	265.9	285.1
Yorkshire and Humberside	203.7	234.8
East Midlands	204.7	152.7
West Midlands	188.6	214.4
Eastern	180.8	175.2
London	508.9	649.9
South East	305.8	272.0
South West	300.3	215.4
Total England	2 313.5	2 340.9
Scotland	218.8	238.7
Wales	236.4	222.7
Northern Ireland	63.5	95.9
Total UK identifiable expenditure	2 832.1	2 898.2
Outside UK	142.7	139.9
Total identifiable expenditure	2 974.9	3 038.1
Non-identifiable expenditure	2 647.0	2 677.0
Total expenditure on services	5 621.9	5 715.1

Notes:      

The data are consistent with the Country and Regional Analyses (CRA) published by HM Treasury in Chapter 9 of Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) 2007.The figures were taken from the HM Treasury public spending database in December 2006 and the regional distributions were completed in January and February 2007.Therefore the tables may not show the latest position and are not consistent with other tables in the Departmental Report.

The analyses are set within the overall framework of Total Expenditure on Services (TES).TES broadly represents the current and capital expenditure of the public sector, with some differences from the national accounts measure Total Managed Expenditure. The tables show the central government and public corporation elements of TES. They include current and capital spending by the Department and its Non Departmental Public Bodies, and public corporations' capital expenditure, but do not include capital finance to public corporations. They do not include payments to local authorities or local authorities' own expenditure. TES is a near-cash measure of public spending. The tables do not include depreciation, cost of capital charges, or movements in provisions that are in Departmental budgets. They do include pay, procurement, capital expenditure, and grants and subsidies to individuals and private sector enterprises. Departmental spend, which is allocated on a regional basis, includes the grant to the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority, funding of eight regional Cultural Consortia, and grant to the Greater London Authority. Some NDPBs sponsored by the Departmental allocated funding on a regional basis. For example, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council allocates funding to support regional museums and Arts Council England provides support to a portfolio of regularly funded regional organisations.

The data are based on a subset of spending - identifiable expenditure on services - which is capable of being analysed as being for the benefit of individual countries and regions. Expenditure that is incurred for the benefit of the UK as a whole is excluded. Tourism allocation has been reclassified from non-identifiable to identifiable expenditure. Across government, most expenditure is not planned or allocated on a regional basis. Expenditure on other programmes is allocated by looking at how all the projects across the Department's area of responsibility, usually England, compare. So the analyses show the regional outcome of spending decisions that on the whole have not been made primarily on a regional basis.

Table 4:     Department of Culture, Media and Sport, total spending per head by country and region, in GBP, 2004-2006

Spending per head	2004/05 Outturn	2005/06 Outturn
North East	60.9	55.3
North West	38.9	41.6
Yorkshire and Humberside	40.4	46.4
East Midlands	47.8	35.5
West Midlands	35.4	40.0
Eastern	32.9	31.6
London	68.5	86.4
South East	37.7	33.3
South West	59.6	42.5
Total England	46.2	46.4
Scotland	43.1	46.8
Wales	80.1	75.3
Northern Ireland	37.1	55.6
Total UK identifiable expenditure	47.3	48.1

Notes:       The data are consistent with the Country and Regional Analyses (CRA) published by HM Treasury in Chapter 9 of Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) 2007.

Chapter updated: 29-11-2008