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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the amount of funding allocated to arts in each of the last twenty years.

Details of arts funding for the last twenty years are published in DCMS’s Annual Reports and Accounts which are available on gov.uk.

Last year the Government announced the unprecedented Culture Recovery Fund – the biggest arts funding package in our country’s history. To date, over £1.5 billion has been allocated from the fund, reaching over 5,000 organisations and venues.