Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Public Expenditure

(asked on 15th July 2015) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to HM Treasury's press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what amount of the £30 million additional savings from his Department will consist of (a) underspends within the DCMS group, (b) reduction in core budget and (c) reductions in funding to arms-length bodies.


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Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 22nd July 2015

Of the £30m of in-year savings announced by the Chancellor: a) £24m related to underspends across the Group; b) there was a £1.5m reduction to core budgets; and, c) a £4.5m reduction in funding to arm's length bodies.

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