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  • Improving efficiency and transparency: DCMS cuts quangos

    The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced today that 19 of its 55 public bodies are being abolished or reformed

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • A cultural calendar for 2012

    Online diary to showcase cultural events during 2012.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Keynote speech at the Museums Association Conference

    Museums are doing well.  With around 2500 museums in the country, there are now over 131 designated collections and 1800 Accredited Museums.…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Government Art Collection

    First ever display in a public gallery

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Time ticking for rare regulator

    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on very rare early 19th Century regulator made in celebrated Arnold workshop.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • DCMS improves efficiency and cuts costs with review of arm’s length bodies

    A number of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) 55 public bodies are set to be merged, abolished or streamlined.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Review of Arm's Length Bodies

    A number of our public bodies are set to be merged, abolished or streamlined.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Developing endowments

    Museums, galleries and other cultural institutions could enjoy a more stable financial future if endowments are more widely used.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Camille Silvy photography exhibition opens today

    First retrospective exhibition devoted to street photography pioneer Camille Silvy (1834-1910) opens at the National Portrait Gallery.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Frederick Cayley Robinson exhibition opens today

    A free exhibition of one of the early 20th century’s most distinctive British painters opens at the National Gallery in London today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Culture minister rules unique William Burges settle to stay put

    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a unique zodiac settle, designed by the influential architect William Burges

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Culture minister rules unique William Burges settle to stay put

    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a unique zodiac settle

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • DCMS savings announced

    Savings of around £73 million have been made by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Bid to keep unique Pierino da Vinci sculpture in the country

    The export of a unique bronze sculpture depicting a tragic scene from Dante’s Inferno has been put on hold.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Export ban on gem-set gold finial from the throne of Tipu Sultan

    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on an extremely rare gold gem-set tiger’s head finial from the throne of Tipu Sultan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Culture Minister defers export of historic silver-gilt mounted stoneware tankard

    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a silver-gilt mounted Rhenish salt-glazed stoneware drinking tankard

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Have your say on our programme

    The Government’s Culture, Olympics, media and sport programme is online and commentable.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Our contribution to reducing the Government deficit

    We will contribute £61 million from our budget towards reducing the Government deficit, plus savings of £27 million from the Olympics budget.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Museums given last chance to save rare Islamic rock crystal ewer

    Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a rare medieval Islamic ewer carved from a single block of rock crystal.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Topping out Watts Gallery

    On Friday, Jeremy Hunt visited Watts Gallery to complete the topping out ceremony as part of its restoration. Mr Hunt has been a long-term…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government