Department for Culture, Media and Sport

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Template:Outofdate Template:PoliticsUK 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 Government 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.

1 Ministers
2 Permanent secretary
3 History and responsibilities
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Ministers

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DCMS Logo

The current ministers at the DCMS are:

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport — The Rt Hon. James Purnell, MP
Minister of State for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism - The Rt Hon. Margaret Hodge, MBE, MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport - Gerry Sutcliffe, MP

[edit] Permanent secretary

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DCMS headquarters in Cockspur Street

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 and overseeing 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:

The DCMS also manages the Government Art Collection.

The DCMS 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:

The public broadcasting authorities are: