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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 Executive 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.

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Ministers

Permanent secretary

History and responsibilities

External link

Ministers

The current ministers at the DCMS are:

★ Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport — Rt Hon James Purnell MP

★ Minister of State for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism - Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE MP

★ Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport - Gerry Sutcliffe MP

Permanent secretary

The Permanent Secretary is Jonathan Stephens.

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:

★ Alcohol and entertainment

★ Architecture and design

★ Arts

★ Broadcasting

★ Creative industries

★ Cultural property

★ Gambling and racing

★ Historic environment

★ Libraries

★ Museums and galleries

★ National Lottery

★ Sport

★ Tourism
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:

★ Channel Four Television Corporation

★ Historic Royal Palaces

★ Horserace Totalisator Board (The Tote)
The public broadcasting authorities are:

★ British Broadcasting Corporation

★ Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C) - Welsh Fourth Channel Authority
In addition, responsibility for the Office of Communications (Ofcom) is shared with the Department of Trade and Industry.
The DCMS also sponsors the following non-departmental public bodies:

★ Alcohol Education and Research Council

★ Arts Council of England

★ Big Lottery Fund

★ British Film Institute (BFI)

★ British Library

★ British Museum

★ British Tourist Authority (VisitBritain)

★ Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust

★ Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)

★ English Sports Council

★ Football Licensing Authority

★ Geffrye Museum

★ Greenwich Foundation for the Royal Naval College

★ The Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England (English Heritage)

★ Historic Royal Palaces

★ Horniman Museum

★ Horserace Totalisator Board (The Tote)

★ Imperial War Museum

★ Millennium Commission

★ Museum of London

★ Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

★ Museums, Libraries and Archives Council

★ National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)

★ National Gallery

★ National Heritage Memorial Fund

★ National Lottery Charities Board

★ National Lottery Commission

★ National Maritime Museum

★ National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside

★ National Museum of Science and Industry

★ National Portrait Gallery

★ Natural History Museum

★ New Millennium Experience Company

★ Registrar of Public Lending Right

★ Royal Armouries Museum

★ Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts

★ Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England

★ Sir John Soane's Museum

★ Sport England

★ Tate Gallery

★ UK Film Council

★ UK Sport

★ Victoria and Albert Museum

★ Wallace Collection
The main offices are at 2–4 Cockspur Street, London, SW1Y 5DH as of 2005.

External link

★ DCMS website