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Cultural Heritage
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many staff were employed by his Department to work on heritage in each year since 1997. [224762]
Barbara Follett: Such headcount information as is available is shown in the following table:
| Headcount | |
These figures represent the position at the end of each financial year.
Culture: Finance
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much under each budgetary heading his Department spent on strategic commissioning in each of the last five years. [224841]
Barbara Follett: In the past five years, the Department has spent sums on strategic commissioning in the following areas:
(i) Strategic Commissioning programme for museums and galleries
The total amount spent on the Strategic Commissioning programme for museums and galleries in the past five years is set out in the following table:
| £ million | |
(ii) Development of youth theatre
In 2005, the Department allocated £1.8 million in strategic commissioning funding to the Arts Council for England for the development of youth theatre for the period 2005-08. The Young People's Participatory Theatre project received £1.58 million of this funding up to the end of 2007-08.
Culture Online, a DCMS programme, established in 2002 and ending in March 2007, received £13 million of funding from the Department for the strategic commissioning of a range of projects. Further details of this funding can be found in the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Margaret Hodge) to the hon. Member on 3 March 2008, Official Report, column 2124W.
Departmental Income
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department received from each of its sponsored bodies and agencies in each year since 1997. [225681]
Andy Burnham: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him on 15 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1298-1300W by my hon. Friend the Minister of Sport about the material financial transactions recorded on our systems relating to rental income. The identification of additional transactions could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Information Officers
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department spent on employing press officers in each of the last five years. [224863]
Barbara Follett: The total annual cost (including employer’s costs) of employing press officers in each of the last five years is shown in the following table:
| DCMS (£) | |
The costs increased in 2006-07 due to the need to employ additional press officers to deal with Olympic issues, following London’s successful bid in July 2005 to host the 2012 games.
Information for 2008-09 has not been included as the current year’s expenditure has not yet been audited.
Departmental Official Visits
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent on overnight accommodation by his Department’s civil servants in the last 12 months. [228766]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Department can provide only partial information on the total expenditure as some transactions have been amalgamated into general travel and subsistence claims and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The figure provided is the total amount spent on individual government procurement cards for the last 12 months up to and including the end of September 2008.
The total amount spent on accommodation was £43,748.
Departmental Recruitment
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which were the three most expensive appointments in relation to recruitment advertising in each of the last three years; and how much was spent in each case. [225472]
Barbara Follett: The three most expensive appointments in relation to recruitment advertising in the last two financial years are set out in the following table:
| £ | ||
|
Finance and Programme director, Government Olympic Executive |
The recruitment related costs for the period 2005-06 can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Written Questions
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many and what proportion of written Questions for answer on a named day his Department has answered on the due date in the current session of Parliament to date. [226900]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The number of named day written questions answered on the named day in the current parliamentary session by DCMS Ministers is 202 (39.8 per cent.).
Festivals and Special Occasions
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department spent on days of (a) religious and (b) cultural celebration in the last 12 months. [227733]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Over the last 12 months, the Department has not spent anything on religious days and has spent £1,230 on cultural celebrations.
Film: Digital Technology
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which locations have been selected to host mixed media centres as set out in the cross-departmental report, New Talents for the New Economy. [227183]
Barbara Follett: In “Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy” we outlined six venues that would be used as indicative case studies. They are Broadway, Nottingham; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool; Sheffield Media and Exhibition Centre, Sheffield; Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and Watershed, Bristol.
Heritage Lottery Fund
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much the Heritage Lottery Fund has received from the National Lottery Distribution Fund in each year since 2000 in 2007-08 prices. [225505]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The amounts drawn down by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) from the National Lottery Distribution Fund (NLDF) in each year are set out in the following table:
| Amounts drawn down by HLF from the NLDF (2007-08 prices) | |
| £000 | |
Inspections
Mr. Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many inspectors were employed by his Department in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 1997-98. [228086]
Mr. Sutcliffe: No inspectors were employed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 1997-98.
Licensing Act 2003
Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent representations the Government has received on the operation of the Licensing Act 2003. [228884]
Mr. Sutcliffe:
The Department continues to receive a number of letters from hon. Members and members of the public on general licensing issues. More specifically,
two recent consultations on minor variations and proposals to allow the removal of the requirement for a designated premises supervisor for village and other community halls, attracted 83 and 67 responses respectively.
Living Places Partnership: Finance
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much (a) his Department, (b) Sport England, (c) the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, (d) English Heritage and (e) Arts Council England contributed to the Living Places Partnership in each of the last three years. [225690]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Information from the Living Places Partnership, is that DCMS, SE, MLA and EH contributed £20,000 in 2007-08, and ACE provided £82,254. In 2006-07, some Living Places partner organisations contributed in-kind through their time on developing the plans for Living Places. There were no formal partnership subscriptions for Living Places in 2005-06.
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts: Information Officers
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many press and communications officers are employed by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. [224858]
Mr. Lammy: I have been asked to reply.
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) currently employs an executive director of communications, a media manager and a commercial assistant.
National Identity
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether he has had discussions on the possibility of introducing a UK-wide British Day; and if he will make a statement. [227732]
Mr. Wills: I have been asked to reply as the Minister responsible for the Governance of Britain agenda.
The Prime Minister asked Lord Goldsmith to carry out a review of citizenship as part of the Governance of Britain programme. Lord Goldsmith reported to the Prime Minister in March 2008. Among his recommendations was considering the case for creating a national day focused on ideas about shared citizenship.
A number of Lord Goldsmith’s recommendations merit further consideration across Government and will be taken into account in discussion and debate on policy development in these areas. However, there are no plans to introduce a national day at the present time.
Olympic Games 2012
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps the Government plans to take to develop new sporting talent to participate in the London 2012 Olympics. [225571]
Andy Burnham [holding answer 9 October 2008]: The Government and UK Sport are providing significant exchequer and lottery funding to Olympic and Paralympic sports through the World Class Performance programme. This funding supports podium level athletes with medal winning capabilities at 2012, development level athletes with medal winning prospects at future Olympic and Paralympic games, and the identification of athletes who have the potential to become podium and development level athletes.
In addition, UK Sport, in partnership with the English Institute of Sport and Paralympics GB, has developed a number of specific talent identification and development programmes for 2012, including Pitch2Podium, for example, which aims to recruit released academy footballers onto fast track Olympic development programmes.
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