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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the increased funding to her Department announced in the Budget 2021, how much and what proportion of that additional funding she plans to allocate to civil society organisations; and what percentage change that will represent compared with 2020.

DCMS has secured a Spending Review settlement that will enable us to deliver the Prime Minister’s priorities and Manifesto commitments for which we are responsible.

This is a positive overall settlement for DCMS and our ALBs. As always, we need now to work through the detail of what it means for individual organisations, programmes and teams before providing more detailed allocations.

We will of course continue to work with all stakeholders on the implementation of our programmes so that we can deliver our ambitious agenda.