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UK City of Culture

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the competition for the UK City of Culture enables all participants to enhance their cultural offer.

answeredDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

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Answering body
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Tabled
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
12 Mar 2025
Answer
17 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the competition for the UK City of Culture enables all participants to enhance their cultural offer.

  2. 12 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Government’s approach to a future City of Culture competition will be announced in due course.The current application guidance for the UK City of Culture competition already allows towns to enter. We keep under review our competition criteria feeding ...

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