Department for Culture, Media and Sport

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DCMS headquarters in Cockspur Street

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (sometimes abbreviated DCMS) is a department of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for culture, media and sport in England. As well as responsibility for the creative industries (some joint with Department for Trade and Industry) and tourism. Culture and sport are devolved matters, with responsibility resting with corresponding ministers in the Scottish Executive and Welsh Assembly Government in Scotland and Wales.

1 Ministers
2 Permanent secretary
3 History and responsibilities
4 External link

[edit] Ministers

The current ministers at the DCMS are:

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport — The Rt Hon Tessa Jowell, MP
Minister for Sport (a Minister of State level position) — The Rt Hon Richard Caborn, MP
Minister for Culture — David Lammy, MP
Minister for Creative Industries and Tourism — Shaun Woodward, MP

[edit] Permanent secretary

The Permanent Secretary is Jonathan Stephens.

[edit] 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 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 & entertainment
architecture & design
arts
broadcasting
creative industries
cultural property
education & social policy
all forms of Gambling in the UK, including the National Lottery
historic environment
libraries & communities
museums & galleries
public appointments
sport
tourism

Ministers in the DCMS are responsible for issuing export licenses for cultural artefacts in the UK to be sold abroad.

The DCMS manages the Government Art Collection.

The DCMS also has responsibility for the Royal Parks Agency and the BBC. In addition to this, it funds various Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs):