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Arts: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what financial support her department will offer to the creative industries in the next year.

answeredDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

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Answering body
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Tabled
14 May 2025
Target answer date
16 May 2025
Answer
22 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what financial support her department will offer to the creative industries in the next year.

  2. 16 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 May 2025

    Answer published

    At the Creative Industries Growth Summit in January, DCMS Secretary of State announced £40 million of funding for the creative industries over the financial year 2025/26 – supporting start-up video game studios, British music and film exports, and creativ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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