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The Arts Council is pressing ahead with moves to make the National Lottery pay for previously exchequer funded programmes.
The Arts Council is the body which makes the decision on how lottery revenue and exchequer revenue is spent on the arts in Northern Ireland. In January it decided to move the General Art Awards and Artist Studio Scheme under National Lottery budgets. This move also means that the British Council which received a contribution from the Arts Council towards their work will now have to apply for funding from National Lottery programmes.
The Arts Council's decision is seen as controversial as many argue it breaches the "additionality principle" where National Lottery funding should not substitute for exchequer funding. The House of Lords recently argued for greater enforcement of the additionality principle in debating the National Lottery Bill, and as such the government is expected to include amendments which reinforce the additionality principle in law.
In real terms this means that there is less lotto money available to new arts initiatives, projects and organisations. The very thing lotto funding is designed to fund.
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