Arts: Finance
Commons · Question 33112 · Tabled 24 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Max Wilkinson
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of local government reorganisation on funding of arts, culture and leisure facilities.
Answer
Answered by Chris Bryant, 4 Mar 2025
The funding of local cultural services and organisations is a matter for individual local authorities, but the Government strongly supports their doing so, not least because of the significant economic, social, and wellbeing benefits cultural organisation...