Cultural Institutions: Curriculum Fund

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock Excerpts

Thursday 6th July 2017 Lords Chamber

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

I cannot confirm that at the moment. I say again that we are waiting to hear the details of the curriculum fund, which will come out in due course, as I said to the noble Baroness. The House will appreciate that I should say that the arts are very important to this country, and the creative industries provide a very important sector for exports.

[Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab)]

“Why should we, in the compass of a pale,


Keep law and form and due proportion,


Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,


When our sea-walléd garden, the whole land,


Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,


Her fruit-trees all unpruned”?

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

That is an interesting analogy. I am not a gardener, but I shall reflect on what the noble Lord said.