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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to provided additional support to cultural, arts and media organisations in the context of rising costs associated with ongoing global instability.

The Government recognises the challenges that cultural, arts and media organisations face, including pressures arising from increased operating costs resulting from ongoing global instability.

While not specifically in response to global uncertainty, the Department is investing significant sums in cultural and creative sectors. For example, through the Arts Everywhere Fund, we are investing up to £1.5 billion over this Parliament to support our arts and cultural sectors across England. This includes funding for infrastructure, heritage protection, local museums, libraries and additional support for Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations. This investment will help keep venues open, safeguard jobs, address urgent capital needs and ensure communities across the country can continue to access and benefit from culture.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport continues to engage regularly with sectors across the arts, culture and media, and keeps the needs of these organisations under review.