Question follow-through · 93177
UK City of Culture: Community Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the impact the Department's UK City of Culture Competition and new UK Town of Culture competition will have on local communities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the impact the Department's UK City of Culture Competition and new UK Town of Culture competition will have on local communities.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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2 Dec 2025
Answer published
The strong evidence from UK City of Culture shows that supporting local culture pays both economic and social dividends. Town of Culture is a new competition to ensure smaller places across the UK can share in the real impact by shining a spotlight on pla...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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