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registered interest
date	08/05/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Culture: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to (a) protect and (b) increase funding for arts and culture outside London.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	251910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to promoting the Arts and culture outside London, and continue to work closely with the Arts Council to ensure that the whole of the country has access to funding for arts and cultural programmes.</p><p> </p><p>Last year 70% of Arts Council's <ins class="ministerial">lottery</ins><del class="ministerial">total</del> funding was awarded outside London. Between 2018 and 2022 an additional £170 million of National Portfolio Organisation funding will be invested outside London.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the recent Cultural Development Fund has seen £20 million of funding shared between five towns and cities outside of the capital, while programmes such as Creative People and Places and the City of Culture programme continue to focus outside of the capital.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS has also recently announced an additional £4 million of funding for the DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund. In 2019/20, 35 museums and galleries will benefit from this funding which aims to improve audience experience. Over 80% of regional museums outside London will receive money from this Fund.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 13/05/2019 11:01:57 question first ministerially corrected 14/05/2019 10:50:06 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis previous answer version 117364 answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1083605

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate his Department has made of the total net economic effect of foreign tourists visiting (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	229612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics only holds data on the Gross Value Added (GVA) to the UK’s economy in 2013 at a regional level. They also document the UK’s GVA every year at a national level (shown in the table below). They do not hold GVA information at a city level. In 2013, the GVA for tourism in the West Midlands was 3.76bn.</p><p> </p><p>Direct Tourism GVA in the UK:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>UK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>£44.6bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£49bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£53bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£57.3bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£59bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£60.4bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£64.6bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£68.3bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>£67.7bn (Provisional)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>Not available yet</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table outlines the international visitor spend in the locations requested:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>UK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>£594.5m</p></td><td><p>£16.5bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£549.2m</p></td><td><p>£16.8bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£570.6m</p></td><td><p>£17.9bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£577.9m</p></td><td><p>£18.5bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£843.2m</p></td><td><p>£21.1bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£761.3m</p></td><td><p>£21.7bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£816.2m</p></td><td><p>£21.9bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£854.7m</p></td><td><p>£22.4bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>£806.9m</p></td><td><p>£24.4bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>Not available yet</p></td><td><p>Not available yet</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 18/03/2019 16:53:43 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1052459

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Treasure: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Treasury Act 1996 to promoting museum-led conservation.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	215553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The aim of the Treasure Act 1996 is to preserve important and significant finds for public collections. The intention is that at the end of the process governed by the Act and its associated code of practice, a treasure find will be acquired and conserved by a museum.</p><p> </p><p>The Act and code both emphasise the importance of conservation throughout the treasure find process. The code contains extensive information on the treatment of finds and urges finders to follow appropriate codes of conduct and to seek the advice of professional archaeologists of archaeological and conservation methods.</p><p> </p><p>The Portable Antiquities Scheme, which operates in England and Wales, and which records archaeological finds, also provides advice on conservation to finders.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 06/02/2019 13:39:48 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

999234

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	UK City of Culture: Kingston upon Hull
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding his Department allocated to Hull to prepare for its status as 2017 City of Culture; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	186175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Between February 2015 and the Spring Budget 2016, £15m of Government funding was allocated by Her Majesty’s Treasury for projects relating to Hull hosting UK City of Culture 2017, and investing in the city’s cultural economy for the future.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 05/11/2018 15:25:08 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

993988

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Arts: Coventry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on future funding to support the arts in Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	183237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>My Department announced, in December last year, that Coventry will be the UK City of Culture 2021. This will be a great year of arts and cultural events and will put the city firmly on the map as a cultural centre.</p><p> </p><p>Arts Council England (ACE) will contin 34ue to support the City through its funding programmes, and recently announced £5 million in Lottery funding to support Coventry 2021. In addition, Coventry and Warwickshire now have 12 ACE National Portfolio Organisations, of which six are new entrants. Over the four year funding period, 2018-2022, ACE expect to deliver approximately £73 million of funding to support these organisations.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 29/10/2018 10:48:11 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham