Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (sometimes abbreviated DCMS) 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 Executive and Welsh Assembly Government in Scotland and Wales. While the Northern Ireland Executive remains suspended, culture, sport and tourism are the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Office.
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[edit] Ministers
The current ministers at the DCMS are:
- Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Minister for the Olympics — The Rt Hon Tessa Jowell, MP
- Minister for Sport (a Minister of State level position) — The Rt Hon Richard Caborn, MP
- Minister for Culture — David Lammy, MP
- Minister for Creative Industries and Tourism — Shaun Woodward, MP
[edit] Permanent secretary
The Permanent Secretary is Jonathan Stephens.
[edit] History and responsibilities
Before 1997, DCMS 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 DCMS was the co-ordinating department for the successful bid by London to host the 2012 Olympics and has the role of appointing the agencies to deliver the Games' infrastructure and programme. 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 more recently the Olympics. It is responsible for government policy in the following areas:
- alcohol & entertainment
- architecture & design
- arts
- broadcasting
- creative industries
- cultural property
- education & social policy
- all forms of Gambling in the UK, including the National Lottery
- historic environment
- libraries & communities
- museums & galleries
- public appointments
- sport
- tourism
Ministers in the DCMS are responsible for issuing export licenses for cultural artefacts in the UK to be sold abroad.
The DCMS manages the Government Art Collection.
The DCMS also has responsibility for the Royal Parks Agency and the BBC. In addition to this, it funds various Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs):
- 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) (jointly with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister)
- English Sports Council
- Football Licensing Authority
- Geffrye Museum
- Greenwich Foundation for the Royal Naval 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
The main offices are at 2–4 Cockspur Street, London, SW1Y 5DH as of 2005.
