Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the tweet More arts funding announced today of 26 January 2015 on his Department's Twitter account, what funding of what value that tweet referred to.

The funding referred to in the tweet was an additional £109 million for cultural education programmes in 2015-2016. The funding was announced by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the Secretary of State for Education on 26 January 2015. Please see the following link for more information: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/childrens-music-and-arts-initiatives-receive-109-million-boost