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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress his Department has been made on implementing the Arts Council 10 Year Plan.

The detail of how ACE will deliver the Let’s Create strategy is set out through Delivery Plans, lasting for 3-4 years each. ACE was due to publish its Delivery Plan for 2020-23 in May, but this has been delayed due to the current crisis. A new timetable for publication has not yet been set. Given that Delivery Plans are shorter-term documents which set out how ACE will deliver the strategy, reflecting the priorities of the current government, ACE and DCMS are working closely to develop ACE’s 2020-23 Delivery Plan and will publish in due course.