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date	20/07/2017
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	Health Services: Arts
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 assessment she has made of the use of art-based activities in preventing and curing (a) physical and (b) mental ill health.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	6839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>We believe that arts-based activity can have a significant role in improving health and wellbeing of citizens.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has previously commissioned research to develop the evidence base on the social and wellbeing impacts of cultural engagement, including on mental health conditions such as clinical depression. Research commissioned from the London School of Economics published in 2015 showed that people who engaged in the arts as an audience member were 5.4% more likely to report good health than non-participants.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/09/2017 16:57:42 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

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registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Health Services: Arts
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 assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recommendations and conclusions of the report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing, published on 19 July 2017.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	6840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>We welcome the recent ‘Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing’ report. The report made a specific recommendation for the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) the Department of Health (DoH) and other relevant departments to develop and lead a cross-government strategy to support the delivery of health and wellbeing through arts and culture.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to exploring the potential for such a strategy further with these departments, including DoH.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/09/2017 14:20:22 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane