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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to provide funding to support the arts.

DCMS is committed to supporting arts and culture across the country. This commitment is evident in the recent Spending Round, where it was announced that Arts Council England will be receiving over £375 million of taxpayer funding in 2021/22.

In November 2021 we also announced that 925 arts, heritage and cultural organisations would benefit from the third round of the Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) – the largest ever investment in the arts in the UK’s history. In total, over £1.3 billion has now been allocated from the CRF which has helped around 5,000 individual organisations and sites to date.

The Government wants everybody to benefit from arts and culture, and will continue to put forward the strongest case for robust funding at future fiscal events.