Arts, Culture and Heritage: Support Package

Andrew Griffith Excerpts
Tuesday 7th July 2020

(3 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrew Griffith Portrait Andrew Griffith (Arundel and South Downs) (Con) [V]
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I thank my hon. Friend for the unprecedented package of support that was announced. As she gets into the design of individual components, may I ask her to seek a higher number of individual smaller grants, so that local museums, such as the Amberley Museum, the Arundel Museum and the Steyning Museum in my constituency, get a look in?

Caroline Dinenage Portrait Caroline Dinenage
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It has been like a whistle-stop tour of cultural and arts venues up and down the country today—in fact, I remember visiting the Amberley Museum as a schoolgirl, so it is also a trip down memory lane for me. My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We need to make sure that we can get that money to as many grassroots organisations up and down the country as possible to save them from an unpleasant fate.