{"id":7032,"date":"2014-01-17T18:50:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7032"},"modified":"2014-01-17T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:50:23","slug":"new-cms-committee-inquiry-arts-council-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7032","title":{"rendered":"New CMS Committee Inquiry: Arts Council (England)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has announced a short inquiry into the work of Arts Council England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Arts Council England supports a range of activities across the arts, museums and libraries &#8211; from theatre to digital art, reading to dance, music to literature, and crafts to collections.\u00a0 They have stated that, between 2011 and 2015, they will invest \u00a31.4 billion of public money from government and an estimated \u00a31 billion from the National Lottery to help foster the arts \u2018for as many people as possible across the country\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has decided to conduct a general investigation into the work of Arts Council England, including its scope, scale and remit.\u00a0 We wish to examine the economic and artistic criteria that underpin funding decisions. Furthermore, we seek views on whether the geographical distribution of funding is fair and the justification for the current weighting of this towards London.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee invites written evidence from those who wish to contribute to the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>How to respond: Written submissions should be sent online via the \u2018Arts Council England\u2019 inquiry page of our website.\u00a0 This web portal will be open for submissions from Friday 10 January.\u00a0 Submissions should be received by Monday 24 February 2014.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UK Parliament Inquiry article<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/culture-media-and-sport-committee\/inquiries\/parliament-2010\/work-of-the-arts-council-england\/\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has announced a short inquiry into the work of Arts Council England. Arts Council England supports a range of activities across the arts, museums and libraries &#8211; from theatre to digital art, reading to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7032\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7033,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}