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1505556

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date	06/09/2022
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	Cultural Heritage: South Asia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department last funded celebrations, exhibitions and programmes related to (a) the contributions of the South Asian community to UK life and (b) the culture, history and religions of South Asian countries; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	48200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>My Department has funded many exhibitions and programmes related to the contribution of South Asian culture and history through the bodies it funds.</p><p>Significant projects have been funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund between 2003- 2021, in the London Borough of Harrow, with a total investment of £178,732 which explored and celebrated the South Asian community. Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants has also supported a wide range of organisations and events including: the South Asian Heritage Trust, which delivers their annual South Asian Heritage Month observance; Luton Mela, a festival of South Asian arts and cultural heritage; and Croydon’s Beeja Dance Company who play a national role in developing the next generation of Indian dance leaders in the UK.</p><p>Current projects supported by Historic England are celebrating South Asian Places of Worship through thematic listing and research, and two projects have been awarded through their Everyday Heritage programme to the Bengali Photography Archive and the Sikh Development Academy.</p><p>There are also future events to look forward to. In 2023 the Manchester Museum will unveil a new South Asian gallery in partnership with the British Museum and which has been part-funded by a £5m grant from the government. The British Library also plays a part in celebrating South Asian culture and history through their partnership programmes and events such as the upcoming Lahore literature festival in 2023.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/09/2022 07:49:37 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1504761

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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	Unboxed
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 her Department has taken to assess the extent to which the Unboxed Festival met the objectives set for it.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	47495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The UNBOXED programme aims to bring people together and showcase our creativity and innovation to the world through 10 major commissions across the UK. There are 8 commissions that are live or about to go live, and the live events programme will conclude at the end of October. The UNBOXED delivery company, an arm’s length body of DCMS, continues to measure the programme’s progress and success, including through a range of key performance indicators.</p><p>There is an independent evaluation of the programme underway. This will consider areas such as: job creation; training, development and volunteering opportunities offered; the number of people who will experience UNBOXED in person and online; and the number of participants in the learning and engagement programmes delivered by the creative teams across the country. The evaluation will be published in early 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/09/2022 07:37:23 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1504764

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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	Unboxed
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 took to ensure the Unboxed festival delivered value for money.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	47496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The UNBOXED programme is still running. The live events programme will conclude at the end of October. A departmental <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1097952/Unboxed_Accounting_Officer_Assessment_Letter.pdf" target="_blank">Accounting Officer Assessment</a> for the UNBOXED programme was published on 12 August. It stated that our pre-delivery assessment of the costs and benefits for UNBOXED showed the programme would be value for money, even where some expected benefits are not monetisable. DCMS has kept the programme under review to ensure that it remains value for money.</p><p>There is also an independent evaluation of the programme underway. This will consider areas such as job creation; training, development and volunteering opportunities offered; the number of people who experience UNBOXED in person and online; and the number of participants in the learning and engagement programmes delivered by the creative teams across the country. It will be published in early 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/09/2022 07:38:25 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1504882

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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 recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of rising inflation on the heritage and culture sector; and whether her Department has plans to increase funding to (a) museums, (b) galleries and (c) other heritage organisations to (i) support their continued operation and (ii) ensure their employees are paid an adequate wage.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	47683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister stated to Parliament on 8 September, and as the Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy set out in a written ministerial statement on the same day, the government is acting to protect the UK from the spiralling costs of energy. The Government will support all business, charities and public sector organisations with their energy costs this winter, offering an equivalent guarantee to that for households for six months.</p><p>The written ministerial statement can be found <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2022-09-08/hcws294" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>The Government continues to support the UK’s world-leading culture and heritage sectors, building on unprecedented support during the pandemic, and our long-term investment in these areas. My department is currently engaging with museum and heritage stakeholders to understand the impact of energy and inflation increases on the sector.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/09/2022 07:46:36 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1504888

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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	Charities and Religious Buildings: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of the increase in energy costs on (a) charities and (b) places of worship.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	47595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>As households and communities face rising energy prices, charities are seeing increased demand for their services while contending with the same price increases themselves. Places of worship are facing similar price pressures and increased running costs.</p><p>With government support, charities have shown significant resilience over the past two years, and will again be crucial in supporting communities and households over the winter.</p><p>That is why the government will support all charities, public sector organisations and businesses with their energy costs this winter, offering an energy price guarantee for six months, equivalent to the protection offered to British households. Further details will be announced in due course.</p><p>Through engagement with key stakeholders, government officials are continuously monitoring the impact of energy costs on the charity sector and other civil society organisations, such as places of worship.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/09/2022 07:47:24 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1504988

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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	Unboxed: Overseas Visitors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2022 to Question 13078, if she will publish the (a) names, (b) positions and (c) nationalities of the 12 international delegates who visited Scotland in August; and what conclusions were reached in consultation with that delegation regarding the potential of Unboxed projects to tour overseas.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	47404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK delivered two five-day international delegations in partnership with the British Council. The names, positions and nationalities of the delegates can be found <a href="https://www.britishcouncil.org/contact/press/unboxed-british-council-international-delegations" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>The delegations were devised to facilitate knowledge exchange and to share practice regarding interdisciplinary collaboration, community engagement and creative production. Commercial touring opportunities are now being explored in several countries.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/09/2022 07:48:26 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1505092

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing capital funding to support the establishment of local art galleries including in Tamworth.
tabling member constituency	Tamworth
tabling member printed	Christopher Pincher
uin	47516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government’s position towards the creation of new museums, as set out in the action plan following The Mendoza Review: an independent review of museums in England, is that public funding should only support the creation of new museums in areas and communities with a demonstrable need for them. Instead we have focused on investment in existing museums and galleries through capital programmes such as the DCMS / Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund and the Museum Estate and Development Fund, and our direct sponsorship of fifteen museum arm’s length bodies (encompassing 48 museum sites).</p><p>Arts Council England is our arm’s-length body providing wider support and funding for museums and galleries, and its Museum Development services can provide guidance to organisations on how to open a new museum. They can help develop thinking on how the proposed museum fits within the ecology of arts, culture and heritage in the local area, including determining the scale and interest of the potential audience, and advise on potential avenues for capital funding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/09/2022 07:39:07 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher

1503323

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Broadcasting: Music
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of legislation on the use of (a) lip syncing and (b) pre-recordings at performances advertised as being live.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	44985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>The use of lip syncing and pre-recordings as part of performances advertised as being live is a decision for the artist or performer, and a private contractual matter between them and the event organiser. Event organisers, as with all businesses and traders, must comply with consumer rights legislation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 07/09/2022 14:22:24 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1503410

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Cultural Development Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will provide details on the fourth round of the Cultural Development Fund; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	45091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>The fourth round of the Cultural Development Fund (CDF) is expected to launch in Spring 2024. As per the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cultural-venues-to-receive-128-million-to-improve-access-to-arts-and-culture" target="_blank">announcement</a> in May 2022, CDF rounds 3 and 4 will see up to £49.4m of further capital investment in innovative cultural and creative projects outside London over the Spending Review period 2022/23 - 2024/25.</p><p>CDF round 3 was launched in May 2022. Building on the success of the previous two rounds, this third round of funding will level up through cultural investment, increase access to creativity and culture, and support the visitor and wider local economies in places all over England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 07/09/2022 13:28:00 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1503466

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Parthenon Sculptures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to make it her policy to bring forward legislative proposals that will enable the Elgin Marbles to be returned to Greece.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	45128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>The British Museum, along with some other national museums, is prevented by law from deaccessioning objects in their collection.</p><p>We have no plans to change the law.</p><p>The Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum are legally owned by the Trustees of the British Museum, which is operationally independent of Government. Decisions relating to the care and management of the museum's collections are a matter for the Trustees of the British Museum. The Government fully supports the position taken by the Trustees of the British Museum.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 07/09/2022 13:33:01 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord