PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Cost Effectiveness (25 July 2024)

As laid out in the Spending Review 21 Settlement, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport was required to manage a decreasing funding settlement over this period. This department’s funding was further reduced following the Machinery of Government change in February 2023. This reduction has therefore been incorporated into our yearly budget planning, ensuring greater levels of efficiency.

Our arm’s-length bodies have had to absorb below-inflation increases to their budgets through this Spending Review period, and so have been required to continuously generate further efficiencies.

Future efficiency plans will be incorporated into the next Spending Review, and this government is committed to ensuring that this department and its arm’s-length bodies are providing the greatest levels of efficiency and productivity.