Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCM&S) is a department of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in England, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK, for example broadcasting. It also has responsibility for the creative industries (some joint with Department for Trade and Industry) and tourism in England.
Culture, sport and tourism are devolved matters, with responsibility resting with corresponding departments in the Scottish Government in Scotland, the Welsh Assembly Government in Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland.
The main offices are at 2–4 Cockspur Street, London, SW1Y 5DH.
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[edit] Ministers and Permanent Secretary
The current ministerial team at the DCM&S are:
- Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport - Andy Burnham
- Minister of State for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism - Margaret Hodge
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport - Gerry Sutcliffe
The Permanent Secretary is Jonathan Stephens.
[edit] History and responsibilities
Before 1997, DCM&S was known as the Department of National Heritage, which was in turn created out of various other departments in 1992. The former Ministers for the Arts and for Sport had previous been located in other departments.
The DCM&S was the co-ordinating department for the successful bid by London to host the 2012 Olympics and appointed and oversees the agencies delivering the Games' infrastructure and programme, principally the Olympic Delivery Authority and LOCOG. Following the 7 July 2005 London bombings the department was given the responsibility of co-ordinating humanitarian support to the relatives of victims and to arrange memorial events.
Its five strategic priorities are children and young people, communities, delivery, economy and via the Government Olympic Executive, the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and its legacy. It is responsible for government policy in the following areas:
- Alcohol and entertainment
- Architecture and design
- Arts
- Broadcasting
- Creative industries
- Cultural property
- Gambling and racing
- Historic environment
- Libraries
- Museums and galleries
- National Lottery
- Sport
- Tourism
The DCM&S also manages the Government Art Collection.
The DCM&S has responsibility for one executive agency, the Royal Parks Agency. The DCMS has policy responsibility for three public corporations and two public broadcasting authorities. These bodies and their operation are largely independent of Government policy influence.
The public corporations are:
- Channel Four Television Corporation
- Historic Royal Palaces
- Horserace Totalisator Board (The Tote)
The public broadcasting authorities are:
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C) - Welsh Fourth Channel Authority
In addition, responsibility for the Office of Communications (Ofcom) is shared with the Department of Trade and Industry.
The DCM&S also sponsors the following non-departmental public bodies:
- Alcohol Education and Research Council
- Arts Council of England
- Big Lottery Fund
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- British Library
- British Museum
- British Tourist Authority (VisitBritain)
- Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust
- Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)
- English Sports Council
- Football Licensing Authority
- Geffrye Museum
- Greenwich Foundation for the Royal Navy College
- The Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England (English Heritage)
- Historic Royal Palaces
- Horniman Museum
- Horserace Totalisator Board (The Tote)
- Imperial War Museum
- Millennium Commission
- Museum of London
- Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
- Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
- National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
- National Gallery
- National Heritage Memorial Fund
- National Lottery Charities Board
- National Lottery Commission
- National Maritime Museum
- National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside
- National Museum of Science and Industry
- National Portrait Gallery
- Natural History Museum
- New Millennium Experience Company
- Registrar of Public Lending Right
- Royal Armouries Museum
- Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
- Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
- Sir John Soane's Museum
- Sport England
- Tate Gallery
- UK Film Council
- UK Sport
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Wallace Collection
