Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) students and (b) students eligible for free school meals took the Fine Art GCSE examination in each of the last six years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The table below provides information as requested for the number of pupils (a) eligible and (b) not eligible free school meals in Fine Art GCSE[1] in each of the last six years.
Year | All Students | FSM |
2010/11 | 44,412 | 4,892 |
2011/12 | 42,718 | 4,708 |
2012/13 | 44,506 | 5,209 |
2013/14 | 45,335 | 5,556 |
2014/15 | 45,466 | 5,615 |
2015/16[2] | 44,339 | 5,470 |
Source: Key Stage 4 attainment data
[1] Based on GCSE examinations only - excludes equivalents
[2] 2015/16 figures are revised, all other figures are final.
Asked by: Anna Turley (Labour (Co-op) - Redcar)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many works of art from public collections were loaned to institutions in Redcar and Cleveland in each year since 2010.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Department does not hold information about loans made from public collections. The national museums and galleries have responsibility for their specific loan arrangements and information about their loans is not held centrally.
All Government funded museums and galleries are encouraged to loan works from their collections to institutions across the UK.Sponsored National Museums actively support and partner regional museums, which includes touring and large scale loans. In 2014/15 the national museums and galleries loaned items to 1,629 venues, including regional museums and historic houses.
A new tax relief for museums and galleries will be introduced from 1 April 2017 to encourage them to develop creative new exhibitions and display their collections across the country. The relief will be available on qualifying costs for temporary and touring exhibitions.
An independent report by Lord Heseltine, published in June, makes recommendations to further develop the Tees Valley area. The report called Tees Valley: Opportunity Unlimited has strong arts and cultural content and says the area hosts public art of national significance. The report also highlights the strengths of museums and galleries in the region, which include the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MiMA), the MOD funded Museum of the Royal Navy’s HMS Trincomalee in Hartlepool, the "Head of Steam" Railway Museum in Darlington and the Science Museum Group’s Locomotion branch at Shildon near Darlington.
MiMa is a Tate Plus partner and has strong links with Tate Modern. It receives funding from Arts Council England as a Visual Arts Gallery. The Government is also funding £500k towards the development of a new Captain Cook exhibition resource at the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum in Middlesbrough.
Asked by: Nigel Adams (Conservative - Selby and Ainsty)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the economic value of the visual arts sector was in the last five years.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The visual arts are a very important part of the UK's wider cultural and creative industries sectors and employ 1.8 million people. According to the latest set of government statistics published last month, the value of sectors categorised under 'artistic creation' - which include the visual arts - between 2010 and 2014 was £9.35 billion.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to encourage more young people to visit museums, particularly those from disadvantaged families.
Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble
The government continues to support free entry to the national museum collections. Entrance to the national museums has been free since 2001 and visitor numbers have risen continually, including for families from all backgrounds. A number of the museums and galleries have developed specific programmes targeting young people including Youth Panels. Examples of initiatives specifically targeting young people include the TATE Galleries participation in Circuit, led by the National Youth Network for the Visual Arts, and The Imperial War Museum’s project, New Perspectives: Lesser known histories of the first world war which challenges young people to take a new perspective on the First World War.
The major partner museums sponsored by Arts Council England are also seeking innovative and creative ways of engaging young people with their collections including: Norfolk Museums Creative Collisions Youth Arts Network and Exeter’s The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery’s, Count Me In Programme. ACE also directly funds education provision through investment in major partner museums.
In addition, and to increase the number of young people accessing museums, the Museums and Schools Programme has been introduced to increase the number of schools visits to museums. Through Arts Council England, The Department for Education is providing funding of £3.6m, supporting 10 regional museum services in partnership with National Museums and schools in areas of high deprivation across England, where engagement between schools and culture has been low. So far 87,598 pupils have visited a regional museum as part of the museums and schools programme.
Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the contribution to the UK economy of the UK music industry in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Figures published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as part of the Creative Industries Economic Estimates showed the Gross Value Added (GVA) of music, performing and visual arts in the UK between 2008 and 2012 (see Table 1). Due to the internationally agreed classifications on which Official Statistics depend, it is not possible to disaggregate music from the performing and visual arts further, or to produce estimates over a longer time period. DCMS will work with industry partners and the ONS in the next international revision of the SIC and SOC codes to see if music can be further disaggregated from other industry and occupational codes.
Table 1 - Gross Value Added of music, performing and visual arts between 2008 and 2012
| GVA (£ m) | ||||||||
Creative Industries Group | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | ||||
Music, performing and visual arts | £3,740m |
|
£3,779m |
|
£3,434m |
|
£4,039m |
|
£4,574m |
The trade association UK Music estimates in its annual economic study, ‘Measuring Music’, that the UK music industry’s contribution to the British economy in 2013 was: GVA of £3.8bn, with GVA up 9% year-on-year (£3.5bn in 2012).
Asked by: Lord Clement-Jones (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have assessed the effect of recent legislative and regulatory changes on contractual relationships between collecting societies in the visual arts sector; and whether they will issue appropriate guidance in cases where there is a contractual dispute between such societies.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
The Government has not assessed the effects of recent legislative and regulatory changes on contractual relationships between collecting societies. This is because the policy objective of the regulations is to improve collecting societies’ conduct, rather than to regulate their contractual relationships. However, the impact of the regulations on the conduct of collecting societies will be assessed as part of the usual post-legislative process, which is scheduled for late 2015/ early 2016.
There are no plans for the Government to issue guidance where there is a contractual dispute: Government does not usually interfere in contractual matters between private commercial entities such as collecting societies.
Asked by: Mike Weatherley (Conservative - Hove)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the economic contribution to the UK economy of (a) West End theatres, (b) the UK theatre industry and (c) the Programme Making and Special Events sector in each year since 2004; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Independent sector bodies have carried out assessments of the economic contribution of the arts to the UK economy. A report by the Society of London Theatre in 2013 showed that London Theatres grossed £0.53bn in sales generating VAT receipts of £88m.
DCMS’s Creative Industries Economic Estimates, based on data from the Office of National Statistics available on a consistent basis since 2008, show the following contribution to the UK economy from Music & Visual and Performing Arts (including theatre) in Gross Value Added (GVA) terms:
Year | GVA £m |
2008 | 3,740 |
2009 | 3,779 |
2010 | 3,434 |
2011 | 4,039 |
2012 | 4,574 |