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1386687

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date	09/12/2021
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	Music: Coronavirus
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 passage of aerosol particles when singing; and for what reason are singers exempt from the requirement to wear face coverings introduced on 30 November 2021.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	90446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/12/2021 answer text <p>Some activities can increase the risk of transmitting COVID-19, including singing. This has been demonstrated through studies including the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/905062/S0628_NERVTAG_Assessment_of_transmission_of_COVID-19_through_musical_events.pdf" target="_blank">NERVTAG</a> and <a href="https://chemrxiv.org/articles/preprint/Comparing_the_Respirable_Aerosol_Concentrations_and_Particle_Size_Distributions_Generated_by_Singing_Speaking_and_Breathing/12789221" target="_blank">PERFORM studies</a>.</p><p>However, in some circumstances, people cannot do their work activity effectively while wearing a face covering. The DCMS ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-covid-19/events-and-attractions#amateur" target="_blank">Working safely during coronavirus: Events and attractions</a>’ (updated on 22nd December) explains that professional performers (and amateur performers who are part of professional activities) are not required to wear a face covering while they are performing or rehearsing, but should be encouraged to do so if possible.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 24/12/2021 14:25:30 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1386402

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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: 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 she is taking to provide funding to support the arts.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	89620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/12/2021 15:19:36 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1386403

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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: 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 estimate he has made of the amount of funding allocated to arts in each of the last twenty years.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	89621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2021 answer text <p>Details of arts funding for the last twenty years are published in DCMS’s Annual Reports and Accounts which are available on gov.uk.</p><p>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.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 22/12/2021 09:35:00 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1386404

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Museums and Galleries: Fees and Charges
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 she has made of the impact of museum entry fees on access to the arts for low income families.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	89622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>The Government supports free entry to DCMS-sponsored museums, and reiterated this commitment in its 2019 manifesto. The Government also supports free entry to non-national museums through the Museums and Galleries VAT Refund scheme, known as Section 33A. This scheme allows eligible museums and galleries providing free admission to reclaim VAT. Currently over 140 museums across the UK benefit from this tax relief.</p><p>The commitment to free entry to the permanent collections at DCMS-sponsored museums has had a dramatic effect on the total number of visitors. We continue to monitor audience engagement with museums through the Participation Survey (formerly ‘Taking Part’) and Museum Development UK’s Annual Museum Survey which surveys the non-national accredited museums. The 2020 survey found that 54.4% of accredited museums in England charge for admissions and 45.6% are free to enter. The survey tells us there were 17,164 median adult visitors to free-entry museums compared with 13,000 to those that charge or had charged for exhibitions.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone, no matter their background or geographic location, can experience and enjoy the brilliant collections and benefits that our national and regional museums bring. Free entry is just one aspect of this, and we continue to support a wide range of projects and initiatives aimed at improving access to arts and culture through our arm’s-length bodies such as Arts Council England.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/12/2021 15:15:45 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1386407

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Museums and Galleries: 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 he will take to ensure the adequate funding of regional museums.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	89623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2021 answer text <p>DCMS supports museums across the country through Arts Council England, whose core investment in museums has increased, with 72 museums and museum support organisations sharing over £36 million of taxpayer funding per annum in 2018-22 – a significant increase compared to the 2015-18 major partner museums programme.</p><p>The National Lottery Heritage Fund is the UK-wide National Lottery distributor for heritage projects. Most funding is for capital projects, with some other sector support. Since 1994 the National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded over £2.2 billion to more than 5,600 museum, library, archive and collection-based projects across the UK.</p><p>Historic England also provides funding for historic buildings at risk, to help them repair and conserve their historic sites. Several museums have benefited from such funding, and continue to do so.</p><p>Final allocations for these arm’s-length bodies for the next three-year Spending Review period will be confirmed in the New Year following DCMS’s internal business planning process.</p><p>The VAT33A Refund Scheme for Museums and Galleries allows accredited museums across the UK to claim back VAT incurred on most goods and services purchased in order to grant free rights of admission to their collections.</p><p>The Government also confirmed a variety of measures to support regional museums at Budget 2021 including:</p><ul><li><p>an extension of the Museums and Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief (MGETR) for a further two years until 31 March 2024;</p></li><li><p>a temporary increase in the headline rates of relief for MGETR, for exhibitions commencing their production stage after 27 October 2021;</p></li><li><p>confirmation of the £153 million Cultural Investment Fund for cultural infrastructure projects, which includes support for the Museum Estate and Development Fund to tackle urgent maintenance backlogs in accredited regional museums in England; and</p></li><li><p>confirmation that the National Railway Museum in York will continue to receive funding towards the Vision 2025 transformation project.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 21/12/2021 12:02:39 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1386413

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Archaeology: Investment
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 plans she has to invest in archaeological projects (a) overseen by or (b) that directly support museums.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	89624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2021 answer text <p>The Government invests in and supports archaeological projects in a number of ways, including funding through arm’s-length bodies such as Historic England and The National Heritage Memorial Fund. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government has further supported a number of archaeological providers through the Cultural Recovery Fund (CRF) – for instance, York Archaeological Trust, which received £1,926,420, Dorset Natural History &amp; Archaeological Society, which received £979,000, and The Sussex Archaeological Society, which received a total of £821,300 across the first two rounds of the CRF.</p><p>Additionally, the British Museum and Amguedffa Cymru/National Museum of Wales Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is funded in England by DCMS as part of its grant in aid to the British Museum. The PAS is a voluntary scheme for recording archaeological finds made by members of the public. In 2019 over 81,000 finds were recorded and there are currently 843 research projects ranging from PhD to A Level using the scheme’s information.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 21/12/2021 12:03:54 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1386416

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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: 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 plans she has to invest in the digital arts.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	89625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>DCMS recognises the importance and potential of the digital arts, and invests in a number of digital arts programmes and projects through Arts Council England (ACE). ACE funds a range of digital arts commissions through Project Grants, with recent examples including the <a href="https://jasminvardimon.com/2021/08/alice-vr-premieres-at-boing-festival/" target="_blank">Jasmin Vardimon Alice VR</a> project and <a href="http://thresholdstudios.tv/projects/digital-democracies/" target="_blank">Digital Democracies</a> which is a project focused on developing digital artworks for public spaces.</p><p>ACE also supports a number of National Portfolio Organisations that specialise in digital art including <a href="https://www.blasttheory.co.uk/" target="_blank">Blast Theory</a>, <a href="https://invisibleflock.com/" target="_blank">Invisible Flock</a> and <a href="https://www.fact.co.uk/the-imaginists-society" target="_blank">FACT</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.thespace.org/" target="_blank">The Space</a>, which currently has a £2 million two-year grant from the taxpayer via ACE, aims to help build the digital capacity of arts organisations so that they are more knowledgeable and confident about developing digital arts projects. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Space has also delivered 25 digital commissions for the BBC, including the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08jnb2n" target="_blank">Culture in Quarantine: Filmed in Lockdown</a> series, and in the last six months it has delivered a further 12 commissions for Culture in Quarantine made by <a href="https://weareunlimited.org.uk/12-disabled-artists-awarded-bbc-culture-in-quarantine-commissions/" target="_blank">disabled artists</a> to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/12/2021 15:43:49 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1386417

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Theatres: 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 she is taking to help ensure that theatres are financially viable.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	89626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/12/2021 answer text <p>Theatres have been eligible to access Government COVID-19 support throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes various government-backed loans, business grants, reduction in VAT and the extended furlough and self-employed support schemes.</p><p>Theatres have also benefited significantly from the Cultural Recovery Fund (CRF). To date, over £1.5 billion has been allocated from this fund, reaching around 5,000 individual organisations and sites. Of this funding, around £280 million has gone to organisations classifying their primary discipline as theatre. This includes both grants and significant offers made to theatre organisations through the Culture Recovery Fund’s Repayable Finance programme.</p><p>Providing access to emergency funding throughout the winter period, we have reopened the Emergency Resource Support strand of the CRF programme. We have also recently announced a £30m increase to the budget of this strand, and adjustments to the application windows. This is giving more applicants at imminent risk of financial failure an opportunity to bid for support, protecting even more organisations so that they can continue to create jobs and contribute to the economy. The third round of CRF is still open for applications, providing vital ongoing support for the cultural, heritage and creative sectors. We will keep the delivery of the programme under active review and consider how best to adapt it in line with the needs of the sector.</p><p>In addition, through 2021/22, Arts Council England estimates that it has provided approximately £125 million of regular funding for organisations classified as theatres, which will ensure they are able to continue operating in a financially stable position.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 31/12/2021 14:05:00 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1386418

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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: Curriculum
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 discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the role the arts in the school curriculum.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	89627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring all children and young people have a broad and balanced curriculum, of which creative education is a key part. DCMS Ministers have regular meetings and discussions with their ministerial colleagues from across Government on a range of issues, including with the Secretary of State for Education to discuss arts and education.</p><p>Details of Ministerial meetings are published quarterly on the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-digital-culture-media-sport" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> website.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/12/2021 14:57:50 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1385873

registered interest
date	07/12/2021
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	Holiday Accommodation: Licensing
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 plans he has to bring forward proposals for the licensing of Airbnb and other short term holiday let providers.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	88786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2021 answer text <p>The Government's Tourism Recovery Plan sets out our intention to consult on the introduction of a statutory registration scheme for tourism accommodation providers.</p><p>We intend to begin this process with a call for evidence in the new year. This will assist in developing proportionate, evidence-based policy options for a subsequent consultation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 10/12/2021 08:56:58 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell