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Gambling: Research
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what research his Department has commissioned into problem gambling in the last five years. [155767]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information requested is set out in the following table.
Information Officers: Arts Council England
Mr. Francois: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by Arts Council England. [154681]
Margaret Hodge: Arts Council England does not employ press officers. Instead, they employ staff with responsibility for communicating with the media as part of their wider role in the organisation. Two of these members of staff are based at the national office and 18 across the regional offices.
Information Officers: Big Lottery Fund
Mr. Spring: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the Big Lottery Fund. [154128]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Big Lottery Fund currently employs eight full-time press officers.
Information Officers: British Film Institute
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the British Film Institute. [154418]
Margaret Hodge: The British Film Institute employs five full-time equivalent (FTE) press officers. This includes one communications manager who deals with press 50 per cent. of the time and one corporate and public affairs person who deals with press 50 per cent. of the time.
Information Officers: British Library
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the British Library. [154717]
Margaret Hodge: The British Library employs four full-time press officers and one free-lance press officer for the exhibition “Sacred”.
Information Officers: British Museum
Mr. Francois: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the British Museum. [154675]
Margaret Hodge: The British Museum employs two press officers.
Information Officers: Heritage Lottery Fund
Mr. Mackay: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the Heritage Lottery Fund. [154460]
Margaret Hodge: The Heritage Lottery Fund employs three press officers.
Information Officers: Historic Royal Palaces
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by Historic Royal Palaces. [154168]
Margaret Hodge: Historic Royal Palaces has one senior press officer, two public relations managers and a Head of Communications. They are all full-time and, in addition to their duties liaising with the press, these officers deal with both public enquiries and media enquiries, such as those concerned with filming at the Palaces.
Information Officers: Museums Libraries and Archives Council
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. [154165]
Information Officers: National Lottery Commission
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the National Lottery Commission. [154164]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The National Lottery Commission employs two communications officers. Part of their job is to deal with press inquiries.
Information Officers: Natural History Museum
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the Natural History Museum. [154733]
Margaret Hodge: The Natural History Museum employs four press officers.
Information Officers: Royal Parks
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by Royal Parks. [154658]
Margaret Hodge: The Royal Parks has one full-time press officer and a communications manager who deals with press issues occasionally.
Information Officers: Science Museum
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the Science Museum. [154734]
Margaret Hodge: The Science Museum employs three full-time press officers and one part-time press officer.
Information Officers: Sport England
Mr. Mackay: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by Sport England. [154468]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Sport England currently employs 6.5 full-time equivalent (FTE) press officers.
This takes into account a percentage of press work done in each of Sport England’s regions.
Information Officers: Sports Council for Wales
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the Sports Council for Wales. [154156]
Mr. Sutcliffe: This is a devolved matter which is the responsibility of the National Assembly for Wales.
Information Officers: UK Film Council
Mr. Spring: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the UK Film Council. [154144]
Margaret Hodge: The UK Film Council employs 1.5 full-time equivalent (FTE) press officers. This is made up of:
0.5 FTE: one part-time press officer
0.5 FTE: 50 per cent. of the Press and Public Affairs Manager
0.3 FTE: 30 per cent. of an industry relations role
0.2 FTE: 20 per cent. of the Head of Communications
Information Officers: UK Sport
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by UK Sport. [154155]
Mr. Sutcliffe: UK Sport's Communications Team employs five members of staff covering all aspects of communications including press.
Information Officers: Victoria and Albert Museum
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by the Victoria and Albert museum. [154417]
Margaret Hodge: The Victoria and Albert museum employs three press officers.
Information Officers: VisitBritain
Mr. Spring: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press officers are employed by VisitBritain. [154147]
Margaret Hodge: There are 8.5 posts under VisitBritain’s head of press and PR delivering the organisation’s England, international and corporate press and public relations functions. In addition, some 25 posts in VisitBritain’s overseas offices are designated as having a media, press, PR or communications role.
McMaster Review
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when he expects Sir Brian McMaster’s review of how the Government supports the arts to be published. [155758]
Margaret Hodge: The Secretary of State has asked Sir Brian to report by the end of 2007.
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the terms of reference are for the review being carried out for his Department by Sir Brian McMaster. [156705]
Margaret Hodge: The Secretary of State has asked Sir Brian McMaster to consider three main themes in his review:
How the system of public sector support for the arts can encourage excellence, risk taking and innovation;
How artistic excellence can encourage wider and deeper engagement with the arts by audiences;
How to establish a light touch and non-bureaucratic method to judge the quality of the arts in the future.
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the estimated cost of the review being carried out for his Department by Sir Brian McMaster is; on what date he expects Sir Brian to report; and what opportunities have been provided for stakeholders and others to contribute to the review. [156706]
Margaret Hodge: We expect the review to incur cash costs of approximately £50,000. In addition, numerous organisations and stakeholders are contributing their time and resources to the review in kind. The Secretary of State has asked Sir Brian to report by the end of 2007.
All of Arts Council England’s regularly funded organisations have received letters inviting them to contribute to the review, as have the national and regional hub museums. There will also be a series of interviews and group meetings with stakeholders in order to inform Sir Brian’s thinking ahead of the review’s publication.
In addition to this, we will shortly be publishing information about the review on the departmental website, along with details of how members of the public can contribute their ideas.
National Lottery Commission: Manpower
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people are employed by the National Lottery Commission. [155770]
Mr. Sutcliffe: As of 3 October 2007, the National Lottery Commission employed 41 people.
National Lottery: Costs
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the annual operating costs of each of the National Lottery distributors were in each of the last three years for which figures are available. [155772]
Mr. Sutcliffe: This information is contained in distributor’s annual reports and accounts, copies of which are laid before Parliament and available in the Library of the House.
National Lottery: Grants
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been allocated to statutory bodies from each National Lottery distributor in each year since 1994. [155769]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Department’s National Lottery Grants Database does not record the recipient status, whether statutory body, local authority or private sector, for every grant it records. The information requested could therefore only be provided by requesting a designation for every award from each distributor, which would incur disproportionate cost
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was received by each of the National Lottery good causes in each year since 1995-96 in constant 2007-08 prices. [156710]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The figures requested, which are for income raised for the various good causes including investment income, are given in the following tables using 2006-07 constant prices, the latest available from the Office for National Statistics.
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